From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 20:13:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C1AD37B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 34414 invoked by uid 100); 3 Oct 2000 03:13:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14809.20203.202472.527179@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:13:47 -0500 (CDT) To: Roger Merritt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating docs In-Reply-To: <99568810@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger Merritt writes: > I'm embarrassed that I haven't been able to find the answer to this > myself, but how the devil do I update the Handbook and other docs on my > machine? I've run cvsup doc-all tag=. several times, a lot of stuff is > downloaded, cvsup quits happy, but my handbook still is the one that > describes installation of FreeBSD 2.2.8. I've looked in the Makefile in > /usr/doc, but it appears to just run cvsup doc-all. Did you try building the docs? In particular, "make install" should work. That target is in the file doc.subdir.mk file included by the top level Makefile. > I haven't found anything in the Handbook itself nor in the FreeBSD > Documentation Project. It's not a crippling problem, because I can > always access the latest edition on the net, but it would be convenient > to have my local copy up-to-date. It's in the documentation project primer. See for details on the build process.