From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 13:57:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB3E106568F for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:57:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A4E8FC1D for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 6461 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2008 13:57:07 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Dec 2008 13:57:07 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19EA50864; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:57:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 9B3521DAA0; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:57:02 -0500 (EST) To: Anton Shterenlikht References: <20081231133048.GA76399@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:57:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081231133048.GA76399@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> (Anton Shterenlikht's message of "Wed\, 31 Dec 2008 13\:30\:48 +0000") Message-ID: <44k59gv45t.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:57:08 -0000 Anton Shterenlikht writes: > I update my local FBSD documentation with cvsup doc-all. > I note that the latest FBSD documentation is under /usr/doc. > However I still have /usr/share/doc which is about 2 years out of date. > > On the other hand /usr/doc does not appear in hier(7), > whereas /usr/share/doc does. > > Can I safely delete the obsolete docs under /usr/share/doc? > Why are there two doc folders? What you have downloaded is the source from which the docs are built. If you want to build them yourself, the directions are in the FreeBSD Documentation Project primer (which is in the "books" section of the documentation; I'd recommend you read it on the web -- for example, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/ -- until you have a more recent local copy). If you aren't planning on building the documents yourself, just download them from the ftp sites. Every document includes a suggestion to do so from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/