local copy of handbook

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Mon Dec 29 21:43:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +0000
Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> wrote:

> You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the
> docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command
> after you have csup'd.
> 
> The process is described within this page I just put up:
> 
> http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html
> 
> There maybe some errors there or things I've missed, so apologies for
> that in advance. Any questions, just drop me an email.
> 
> It's good practice IMO to have a locally updated copy of the handbook.
> 
> You always need the handbook when your 'net connection is down ;)

Are the docs branched?  I tried running a csup with
tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line

doc-all

to

doc-all tag=. 

fixed it and fetched all the docs.

-- 
Bruce Cran


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