Gentoo Docs ebuild

Maritza R Maas · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 10

was there an ebuild to get the latest Gentoo on-line documentation onto my computer.

The complete lack of response tells me there is no such ebuild.
I really think there should be one.

Is anyone working on it?
Should I submit a bug?
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likewhoa · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:24 pm Post subject:

as far as I know there is no ebuild for the handbook as this is online.

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

aren't you stuck in chicken/egg case ???

Why would someone need a doc ebuild for gentoo, if you own gentoo already, then you already use & apply the doc to install it.
To get clear: "i need to emerge the doc to know how to install gentoo so i could then use emerge to install the doc..."

likewhoa · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject:

davidm · Guru Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 557 Location: US

Well in most cases it wouldn't make sense. But I suppose if one had irregular internet access (perhaps some parts of the world or odd situations involving dialup) it could be useful when making rare configuration changes which do not require one to be online (or maybe to restore network access after some sort of failure). I know of some other distros which do provide something like this.

I notice for the core handbook as stated you can add "?full=1" to get it all one page like so: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 then one could just save it.

But I could see the use in possibly having all recent documentation available (IMO, I think the unofficial wikis might potentially be good to include, if possible.) easily. I guess one way which might make sense is to make an archive which is simply updated once a month or so. Or alternatively a user could probably set up something to grab the pages for them manually although this could potentially make for bandwidth issues on the host sites.

Shining Arcanine · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110

I would appreciate an ebuild that provided documentation for use as an offline reference.

tomk · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:43 am Post subject:

Keeping track of all the documentation changes in a ebuild would make it hard to maintain. If you want you can use anoncvs to get the documentation from the gentoo/xml/htdocs repository. The main problem is that it is in its raw XML format which is probably not what you are looking for.
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Shining Arcanine · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110

wswartzendruber · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:13 am Post subject:

Are we talking man or info pages?

gentoo-dev · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 172