Updating local copy of documentation
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
kdk at daleco.biz
Fri Aug 6 12:14:43 PDT 2004
Tom Munro Glass wrote:
>When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the
>articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential
>handbook.
>
>Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that
>maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently
>not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would
>be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Munro Glass
>
>
You'd do it in similar fashion; in fact you could rather easily
script it, I suppose.
$cvsup doc-all[*]
$cd /usr/doc && make install clean
*see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile for details.
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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