Re: usefull FreeBSD documentation

In article <JElFf.1220$NR.639@dukeread12> conrads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Conrad J. Sabatier) writes:
In article <ds4n2j$2ss8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Per Hedeland <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In article <A99Ff.1140$NR.1096@dukeread12> conrads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Conrad J. Sabatier) writes:

Actually, /usr/doc is where the documentation *sources* normally reside.
They are *installed* to /usr/share/doc.

Uh, documentation sources, like all other sources, *normally* reside
under /usr/src of course - specifically under /usr/src/share/doc. I
don't think I've ever seen a FreeBSD system with a /usr/doc directory,
but perhaps they exist...

No, actually, if you use the doc-supfile under /usr/share/examples/cvsup,
the doc sources *will* be placed under /usr/doc.

There are, of course, some other docs under /usr/src, but the sources for
the various handbooks, articles and FAQ are under /usr/doc.

Ah, sorry, I must confess that I only cvsup the ports, but the cvs
repository certainly agrees with you - however I always do request
installation of the complete sources from the install CD, and this gives
me /usr/src/share/doc but not /usr/doc, which I think is probably a bug.

Anyway, in case anyone that really needs to know is still reading this,
the place to go if you want to look at the actual "built" documentation
on your local system is indeed /usr/share/doc. And at least on my
systems, there is a symlink (which I didn't put there:-) that makes the
simple form file:///usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html work fine in a
browser.

--Per Hedeland
per@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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