Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 20:02:23 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/12.0-RELEASE/ has empty doc.txz file? Message-ID: <20190428200223.87dd994c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CABx9NuR=nPjhRdREG42GBnzSZ15yJri9=mZdf2e34k1iMtdbqg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABx9NuR=nPjhRdREG42GBnzSZ15yJri9=mZdf2e34k1iMtdbqg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 22:09:45 -0700, Russell Haley wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated my server to 12-RELEASE and was going to use iocell to > update my jails. Iocell needs to fetch the base package archives from the > FreeBSD site but chokes because there is no docs.txz file. After navigating > to http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/12.0-RELEASE/ I > noticed that the docs package is just an empty stub called > docs.txz.empty_archive. > > Is there a reason the official freebsd release package doesn't have a docs > archive? Is there any plan to correct this? Yes. The documentation has been moved into the ports collection, i. e., the documentation is now a port (and _not_ part of the OS distribution anymore). Likewise, base's pkg program is just a "placeholder" (stub) for the "real pkg" program, which is a port. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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