Re: where are the handbooks?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:11:21 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation. The documentation isn't really a part of the base system, it isn't branched, it's continuously updated, it's similar to the ports tree. Older install disks had a snapshot. Having a port/package that installs the snapshot makes it a lot easier to keep up to date. You used to have to use csup to fetch the source files and then build the html, pdf, etc which used a lot of CPU. I gave up on it and synced the html version from the website - a port is better. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
where are the handbooks?
Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? I thought I had searched everywhere, but must have missed something. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where are the handbooks?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? I thought I had searched everywhere, but must have missed something. Those distributions were a mystery to me the first time I installed FreeBSD and they still are. I've never understood why anyone would want to lump together significant ports installation with minor base-system penny-pinching in such an opaque way. In recent versions of sysinstall the documentation is packaged, so IIWY I'd just install the appropriate port or package. $ ls -d /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-all /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-ja /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-bn/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-mn /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-da/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-nl /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-de/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-pl /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-el/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-pt /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-ru /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-es/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-sr /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-fr/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-tr /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-hu/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-zh_cn /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-it/usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-zh_tw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where are the handbooks?
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? Those distributions were a mystery to me the first time I installed FreeBSD and they still are. I've never understood why anyone would want to lump together significant ports installation with minor base-system penny-pinching in such an opaque way. ... the documentation is packaged ... $ ls -d /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-all /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-ja ... Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation. Anyway, problem solved after fetching the package. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
