Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:24:18 GMT From: Fernando <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/165410: Documentation is not up to date Message-ID: <201202230724.q1N7OIPe004485@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201202230730.q1N7UBhB088905@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 165410
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Documentation is not up to date
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 23 07:30:10 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Fernando
>Release: 9.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
In the handbook[1] the following paragraph can be read:
Note: If the directory /usr/src/ does not exist on your system (or if it is empty), then the sources have not been installed. The easiest way to install the full source tree is to run sysinstall as root, and then choosing Configure, then Distributions, then src, and finally All. If it does not exist, you should also create a symlink to /usr/src/sys/:
# ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys
However sysinstall can not be used for this task since 9.0. According to the ftp[2], the distributions sysinstall is trying to fetch don't exist anymore.
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
[2] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/
>How-To-Repeat:
Follow instructions to install kernel sources at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
sysinstall will show an error indicating it can not fetch any of the selected distributions
>Fix:
Update the handbook stating that for 9.0-RELEASE the source can be fetched either from the ftp[1] or using csup.
English is not my first language so a patch to the doc is not provided.
[1] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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