Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:40:58 -0700 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/12.0-RELEASE/ has empty doc.txz file? Message-ID: <CABx9NuQ%2B1m=GbpDdhrPqvsUCaoKOTj=6bEAr2NoHTOfMVkyMUw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190428200223.87dd994c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CABx9NuR=nPjhRdREG42GBnzSZ15yJri9=mZdf2e34k1iMtdbqg@mail.gmail.com> <20190428200223.87dd994c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 11:02 AM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > 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. > Ah, right; part of the efforts to reduce the image size. Thanks! Russ > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >
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