docs/54738: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site
Ken Smith
kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Tue Jul 22 03:10:15 UTC 2003
>Number: 54738
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Remove references to branches/ section of FTP site
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 21 20:10:13 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ken Smith
>Release: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD hobbes.cse.buffalo.edu 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #2: Thu Jun 5 20:46:57 EDT 2003 root at hobbes.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
We want to remove the branches/ section of the FTP site. This
patch, removes all references to that from the Handbook that I
could find.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
Apply patch below in the main handbook/ directory please. Thanks!
--- cutting-edge/chapter.sgml.orig Thu Jul 17 10:50:12 2003
+++ cutting-edge/chapter.sgml Fri Jul 18 22:52:45 2003
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Grab the sources from a &os; <link linkend="mirrors">mirror
- site</link>. You can do this in one of three ways:</para>
+ site</link>. You can do this in one of two ways:</para>
<orderedlist>
<indexterm>
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>Use the <link linkend="cvsup">cvsup</link> program
- with <ulink
- url="ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile">this
- supfile</ulink>. This is the most recommended
+ with the supfile named <filename>standard-supfile</filename>
+ available from <filename>/usr/share/examples/cvsup</filename>.
+ This is the most recommended
method, since it allows you to grab the entire
collection once and then only what has changed from then
on. Many people run <command>cvsup</command> from
@@ -245,34 +245,6 @@
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -f ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>-CURRENT</primary>
- <secondary>Downloading with ftp</secondary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Use <command>ftp</command>. The source tree for
- &os.current; is <quote>exported</quote> on some of the
- <link linkend="mirrors-ftp">FTP mirrors</link> in the
- directory <filename>/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/</filename>.
- Some of our FTP mirrors may also allow
- compressed/tarred grabbing of whole trees. For example you
- see:</para>
-
- <screen>usr.bin/lex</screen>
-
- <para>You can do the following to get the whole directory
- as a tar file:</para>
-
- <screen><prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>cd usr.bin</userinput>
-<prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>get lex.tar</userinput></screen>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you wish to download the entire &os.current; source
- tree <command>cvsup</command> handles this much better than
- mirroring a FTP site.</para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
<indexterm>
<primary>-CURRENT</primary>
@@ -424,7 +396,7 @@
<para>If you are already running a previous release of &os;
and wish to upgrade via sources then you can easily do so
from &os; <link linkend="mirrors">mirror site</link>. This can
- be done in one of three ways:</para>
+ be done in one of two ways:</para>
<orderedlist>
<indexterm>
@@ -439,9 +411,10 @@
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>Use the <link linkend="cvsup">cvsup</link> program
- with <ulink
- url="ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile">this
- supfile</ulink>. This is the most recommended
+ with the supfile named <filename>stable-supfile</filename>
+ from the directory
+ <filename>/usr/share/examples/cvsup</filename>.
+ This is the most recommended
method, since it allows you to grab the entire
collection once and then only what has changed from then
on. Many people run <command>cvsup</command> from
@@ -455,33 +428,6 @@
<blockquote><screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -f ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz</userinput></screen></blockquote>
</listitem>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>-STABLE</primary>
- <secondary>downloading with FTP</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use <command>ftp</command>. The source tree for
- &os.stable; is <quote>exported</quote> on some of the
- <link linkend="mirrors-ftp">FTP mirrors</link> in the
- directory <filename>/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/</filename>.
- Some of our FTP mirrors may also allow
- compressed/tarred grabbing of whole trees. For example you
- see:</para>
-
- <screen>usr.bin/lex</screen>
-
- <para>You can do the following to get the whole directory
- for you as a tar file:</para>
-
- <screen><prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>cd usr.bin</userinput>
-<prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>get lex.tar</userinput></screen>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you wish to download the entire &os.stable; source
- tree <command>cvsup</command> handles this much better than
- mirroring a FTP site.</para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
<indexterm>
<primary>-STABLE</primary>
<secondary>syncing with CTM</secondary>
--- mirrors/chapter.sgml.orig Thu Jul 17 10:50:14 2003
+++ mirrors/chapter.sgml Fri Jul 18 23:02:45 2003
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@
fetch the current <application>CTM</application> sources
directly from:</para>
- <para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.sbin/ctm/"></ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/ctm/"></ulink></para>
<para>The <quote>deltas</quote> you feed
<application>CTM</application> can be had two ways, FTP or
@@ -2294,8 +2294,8 @@
<para>and so forth for the other languages (you can find the
full list by browsing the <ulink
- URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/">FreeBSD
- FTP server</ulink>).</para>
+ URL="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/">FreeBSD
+ CVS repository</ulink>).</para>
<para>With this very useful feature, those users who are on
slow links or pay by the minute for their Internet connection
--- bibliography/chapter.sgml.orig Fri Jul 18 20:28:35 2003
+++ bibliography/chapter.sgml Fri Jul 18 23:06:33 2003
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>The BSD family tree</emphasis>.
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree"></ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree"></ulink>
or <ulink type="html" url="file://localhost/usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree"><filename>/usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree</filename></ulink>
on a modern FreeBSD machine.</para>
</listitem>
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