From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 13:41:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80154106567D for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pittgoth.com (pittgoth.com [205.134.163.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400AB8FC21 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.fbsdsecure.org (c-68-83-213-214.hsd1.va.comcast.net [68.83.213.214]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mB1DfZsK026223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 08:41:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 08:41:31 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Marc Fonvieille Message-Id: <20081201084131.74ecf576.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:41:50 -0000 On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:09:17 +0100 Marc Fonvieille wrote: > Hello, > > Currently, it's difficult for the average user to update his docs. > Most of time, the docs are installed during OS install time and are > never updated. > Another problem is the fact the doc build requires a lot of diskspace > and a lot of time on slow architectures/CPUs/etc which is a problem > during release process. > > To sum up, we're lacking of a simple way to install and update docs > without any compilation operation. > I'm working since a while on ports for doc, so here are the first > packages available for test: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/bn-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/da-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/de-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/el-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/en-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/es-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/fr-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/hu-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/it-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/ja-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/mn-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/nl-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/pl-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/pt-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/ru-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/sr-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/tr-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/zh_cn-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/zh_tw-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > > These packages provide html-split version (of course other formats are > possible, I just want to limit the bandwidth) of the 20081130 docset. > Another thing to note, the packages install docs in > /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd > > So just: > > pkg_add -r http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/en-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > > and tell me if you like it :) Actually, this seems like a pretty good idea. As long as we can keep it updated for people, I'm sure there are users out there who would love to have updated documentation as time goes on. Thanks! -- Tom Rhodes