docsnap lives!

[Eric Anderson]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> What is Docsnap?
> 
> Docsnap is a new rsync repository for easy updating of installed FreeBSD
> documentation (/usr/share/doc). The files there are a little different
> then the files built as part of www build (static URLs). Content is
> updated hourly.
> 
> Why rsync?
> 
> To use the main advantage of rsync - to only transfer the differences!
> 
> How do I use it?
> 
> rsync -rltvz docspan.sk.FreeBSD.org::docsnap /usr/share/doc/

I think that's a typo there - it probably should be:
rsync -rltvz docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org::docsnap /usr/share/doc/

> Rsync lives in net/rsync port.
> 
> Want more info?
> 
> http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/
> 
> What's there left to do?
> 
> Perhaps a FreeBSD port that would install some simple script called
> "docsnap" to call the rsync line above? Feels too trivial to me -
> comments?
> 
> Perhaps adding a few lines about this to official docs once the bugs are
> ironed out. Comments?

Do you want the --delete option to rsync to remove files locally that 
don't exist on the remote side?

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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