Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:11:43 -0400
From: AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net>
To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: snapshots.jp: stable ports trees missing share/doc/{books,articles}
Message-ID: <20021007001142.GA65157@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021007085500D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
References: <20021006222336.GA40362@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021007085500D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:55:00AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > >alane> The trees (used to build the ISO images) are missing the standard FBSD >alane> doc dirs /usr/share/doc/books and /usr/share/doc/articles (i.e., the >alane> handbook isn't there, porting guide, committers guide, etc, all >alane> missing.) > >This is by design of this service. This is because: > > - Poor CPU power doesn't allow to build doc parts, it takes > several hours to finish. > - Doc trees can be fetched from www.FreeBSD.org. Doc tree > build is also tested there, so we can simply avoid > duplicated efforts. > - Snapshots users should know where the latest documents are > available. > - Even if source build is finished without any problems, doc > build failure turns into "release procedure failure." Since > documents are essential part of FreeBSD installation, doc > build can be omitted IMHO. > >-- - >Makoto `MAR' Matsushita All of your points are valid and good ones. I appreciate the quick response and was just concerned that part of the build might have have broken in a silent way, and so wanted to be sure it was by intention. Thanks. (I mirror the build doc tree once a week onto my home machine any, so it posed no real problem for me at all.) -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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