Chapter 9. The Website

Table of Contents
9.1. Preparation
9.2. Build the Web Pages
9.3. Install the Web Pages
9.4. Environment Variables

9.1. Preparation

Use a disk with sufficient free space. A full copy of the documentation and web site files takes over 700 MB. Allowing a full gigabyte provides some breathing room. This space will hold the XML tools, the documentation tree, temporary build space and the installed web pages.

Note:

Make sure the documentation ports are updated to the latest version. See the Handbook section on ports for more information.

9.1.1. Using svn

svn is needed to check out the documentation and web site files from the doc Subversion repository. svn can be installed with pkg_add(1) or from the FreeBSD Ports Collection by running:

# cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion # make install clean

To check out the source files for the FreeBSD web site and the rest of the documentation, run:

% svn checkout https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/doc/head/ ~/doc

svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org is a public SVN server. Select the closest mirror and verify the mirror server certificate from the list of Subversion mirror sites.

After the checkout completes, the current version of the FreeBSD documentation, including the web site files, will be present in ~/doc.

This, and other documents, can be downloaded from http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/

For questions about FreeBSD, read the documentation before contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.

For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.