Bug 12657

Summary: Handbook on ftp mirrors is old...
Product: Documentation Reporter: jobaldwi <jobaldwi>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description jobaldwi 1999-07-16 04:20:01 UTC 
The version of the handbook and FAQ that are available for download
on the ftp mirrors are old.  The FAQ is 6 months old, and the
handbook is 3 months old.  Perhaps there is a way that a new version
could be automatically rolled for the ftp mirrors at every release?

Fix: 

cd /foo
cvs checkout doc
cd doc/en/handbook
make
then copy them over to wcarchive...
How-To-Repeat: Try to download the PDF handbook - it's from 3.1-RELEASE.
Comment 1 Nik Clayton 1999-07-19 23:12:16 UTC 
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:15:28PM -0700, jobaldwi@vt.edu wrote:
> The version of the handbook and FAQ that are available for download
> on the ftp mirrors are old.  

Known about.  I'm currently rolling them by hand when I remember to do 
it.  I haven't invested any energy in automating this, because the 
doc/ reorg will make the Makefile logic much simpler.  If enough people
shout at me then I can work on it now.

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
 the links.
    -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
Comment 2 jobaldwi 1999-07-19 23:46:54 UTC 
On 19-Jul-99 Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:15:28PM -0700, jobaldwi@vt.edu wrote:
>> The version of the handbook and FAQ that are available for download
>> on the ftp mirrors are old.  
> 
> Known about.  I'm currently rolling them by hand when I remember to do 
> it.  I haven't invested any energy in automating this, because the 
> doc/ reorg will make the Makefile logic much simpler.  If enough people
> shout at me then I can work on it now.
> 
> N

I just know some newbies on irc were complaining about it.  It would probably
be nice to at least stay up with the current release by hand until the new
organization allows for a more automated fashion of doing it.  That's only 3
times a year you know. :)

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Comment 3 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1999-08-24 04:27:19 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The new doc/ makefiles render this PR obsolete.