local copy of handbook

Masoom Shaikh masoom.shaikh at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 15:10:32 UTC 2008


On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530
> "Masoom Shaikh" <masoom.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install
>
> > them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file
> >
> > *default tag=RELENG_7
> > *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> > src-all
> > doc-all
> >
> > csup updates the source each time, but now i am not sure about doc!!
>
> If you do it that way, you have to generate the html files yourself,
> cvup fetches generic data files that can be used to generate html , pdf
> etc.
>
> What I do these days is mirror the online version with wget.
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd /usr/share/doc/en
>
> wg_args=" --mirror -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 --limit-rate=33k"
>
> bg_flags=""
>
> # Run quietly from cron
> [ ! -t 0 ] && bg_flags=" --quiet "
>
> wget $bg_flags $wg_args  "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/"
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that is clever use of wget :)
but can't docs remain updated with csup ? if yes, how ?
otherwise I will be happy to generate them from sources if they happen to be 
some simple target

Masoom Shaikh


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