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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:12:51 +0000
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: local copy of handbook
Message-ID:  <20081230061251.GA80902@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20081229214319.65a008a1@gluon>
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:43:19PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +0000
> Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the
> > docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command
> > after you have csup'd.
> > 
> > The process is described within this page I just put up:
> > 
> > http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html
> > 
> > There maybe some errors there or things I've missed, so apologies for
> > that in advance. Any questions, just drop me an email.
> > 
> > It's good practice IMO to have a locally updated copy of the handbook.
> > 
> > You always need the handbook when your 'net connection is down ;)
> 
> Are the docs branched?  I tried running a csup with
> tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line
> 
> doc-all
> 
> to
> 
> doc-all tag=. 
> 
> fixed it and fetched all the docs.
> 

Hi Bruce,

As Giorgios points out, the docs aren't branched.

I'll try & make it clearer on that page that it's only for
SUPFILE(source) that there is a branch you have to follow.
PORTSSUPFILE(ports) & DOCSUPFILE(docs) are just given the current tag,
which they should have by default.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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