Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:49:51 -0800 (PST) From: papowell@astart.com To: jedgar@fxp.org, papowell@astart.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porters Handbook - how and where are DOCs put? Message-ID: <200010301749.JAA26590@h4.private>
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> From cdf.lists@fxp.org Sun Oct 29 09:04:57 2000 > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:04:55 -0500 > From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> > To: papowell@astart.com > Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Porters Handbook - how and where are DOCs put? > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:52:21AM -0800, papowell@astart.com wrote: > > Just was reading the Porters Handbook, and noticed that > > there are no directions on how and where to install documentation. > > > > When in doubt, see hier(7) > > -- > Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org > -------------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org > <snicker> Yeah... and in hier it says man pages go in /usr/share/man /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications share/ architecture-independent files man/ manual pages Note that the man page hier(archy) is not detailed... :-_) But LO! Little elves have been busy... local/ local executables, libraries, etc. Also used as the default destination for the FreeBSD ports framework. Within local/, the general layout sketched out by hier(7) for /usr should be used. Ex- ceptions are the man directory is directly under lo- cal/ rather than under local/share/. Ports documenta- tion is in share/doc/<port>/ Perhaps the following would help improve the readability: Within local/ the general layout sketched out by hier(7) for /usr should be used. Exceptions are the /usr/local/man directory which is directly under local/ rather than under local/share/. Ports documentation is in local/share/doc/<port>/. </snicker> Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, papowell@astart.com 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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