From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 4 15:57:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C3D37B405 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA04628; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:56:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:56:55 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: vass D Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sgml ? In-Reply-To: <20020103224525.10906.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, vass D wrote: > hi, > > just a couple of newbie questions... > > 1. i see in /usr/doc/.... i got the handbook and other > docs in sgml format. how are these viewed? also there > is a makefile there for the whole book, do i got to > run make on that directory to generate the handbook? The handbook and faq should get installed (unless you didn't install the doc distribution) in readable format, probably html and text format. > 2. if i wanna get a newer ports tree for the stable > branch (4.5 prerelease) can i do a cvsup and have only > the line: > > ports-all > > in the cvsupfile? will that overwrite and update the > old tree automaticaly? or do i got to do more > process? so far i've only updated ports and stuff with > full cvsup and buildworld. how can i do it for ports > only? Use the ports-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup; that will update just the ports structure. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message