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Date:      Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:22:16 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204210619100.57298@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120421080406.2364338b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Polytropon wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:50:20 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know where the source(s) for the FreeBSD Handbook and
>>>> FreeBSD FAQ are found?
>>>
>>>
>>> SGML source is in /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ and
>>> /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/, or other subdirectories under /usr/doc
>>> for other languages.  There's build infrastructure in /usr/doc/share.
>>
>> [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ cd /usr/doc/share
>> bash: cd: /usr/doc/share: No such file or directory
>> [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ cd /usr/doc/
>> bash: cd: /usr/doc/: No such file or directory
>
> See the /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc* ports. They will install
> the documentation in a freebsd/ subtree at the obvious location.
>
> 	% ls /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd
> 	de@              en@              faq@
> 	de_DE.ISO8859-1/ en_US.ISO8859-1/ handbook@
>
> As you can see from this example, I have the "en" and "de"
> languages installed. The articles/ and books/ subtrees will
> contain the HTML files.

These are ported versions (snapshots).  The live doc source is in CVS 
and can be fetched with csup.

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