From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 17:12:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F0816A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:12:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D59943D4C for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:12:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (bgp966574bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net[68.41.108.205]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <20040630171149016002akmoe> (Authid: lenzettel); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:11:49 +0000 Message-ID: <40E2F44D.2907DB9D@acm.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:11:41 -0400 From: Len Zettel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: checking out douments X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:12:08 -0000 In the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors, it says: --------------------------------------------- 1.3 Quick Start # 1. Install the textproc/docproj meta-port. # cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj # make JADETEX=no install ---------------------------------------------- Did that (I think) successfully. ----------------------------------------------- 2. Get a local copy of the FreeBSD doc tree. Either use CVSup in checkout mode to do this, or get a full copy of the CVS repository locally. If you have the CVS repository locally then as a minimum you will need to checkout the doc/share, and doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share directories. % cvs checkout doc/share % cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share If you have plenty of disk space then you could check out everything. % cvs checkout doc # 3. If you are preparing a change to an existing book or article, check it out of the repository as necessary. If you are planning on contributing a new book or article then use an existing one as a guide. * * * # If you wanted to edit an existing document, such as the FAQ, which is in doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq you would check it out of the repository like this. % cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq ------------------------------------------------ Okay. After some unsuccessful thrashing around I conclude I have to set the environment variable $CVSROOT. What is not clear to me is what exactly to set it to. Also not clear is whether step 2 is necessary before step 3 can proceed succsessfully. Can you help? thanks in advance -LenZ-