Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:53:00 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why does cvsup drop doc in /usr/doc Message-ID: <20030330105300.2db1f444.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030327182455.GA40418@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20030327130941.35104ed8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030327182455.GA40418@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:24:55 +0200 Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> wrote: > On Thu 2003-03-27 (13:09), Tom Rhodes wrote: > > Hey team, > > > > I've got an interesting or wierd question. Why does the cvsup application > > drop the docs in /usr/doc instead of /usr/share/doc. > > > > Now I understand that the documentation from the release installs > > there, and cvsup keeps track of checked out versions. But can't > > we just drop doc/ into that directory? This way those which want > > to cvsup and update the doc don't get a copy in both places. > > > > Perhaps we do it for the ease of CVS, not sure. Perhaps someone > > could elaborate on this. > > I imagine it's because /usr/doc is the "source" and /usr/share/doc is > where the /usr/doc stuff installs to? > I was guessing that also, but its just `different'. -- Tom Rhodes
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