Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:12:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: pav@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docsnap lives! Message-ID: <43048956.3070609@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1124370276.43883.7.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <1124370276.43883.7.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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Pav Lucistnik wrote: > What is Docsnap? > > Docsnap is a new rsync repository for easy updating of installed FreeBSD > documentation (/usr/share/doc). The files there are a little different > then the files built as part of www build (static URLs). Content is > updated hourly. > > Why rsync? > > To use the main advantage of rsync - to only transfer the differences! > > How do I use it? > > rsync -rltvz docspan.sk.FreeBSD.org::docsnap /usr/share/doc/ I think that's a typo there - it probably should be: rsync -rltvz docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org::docsnap /usr/share/doc/ > Rsync lives in net/rsync port. > > Want more info? > > http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ > > What's there left to do? > > Perhaps a FreeBSD port that would install some simple script called > "docsnap" to call the rsync line above? Feels too trivial to me - > comments? > > Perhaps adding a few lines about this to official docs once the bugs are > ironed out. Comments? Do you want the --delete option to rsync to remove files locally that don't exist on the remote side? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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