Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:26:18 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status of http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html Message-ID: <p04330119b648e119002e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3A232D20.606BD20E@urx.com> References: <p04330113b648b6ec16ec@[128.113.24.47]> <3A231ADA.600ACF42@urx.com> <p04330116b648d21879be@[128.113.24.47]> <3A232D20.606BD20E@urx.com>
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At 7:57 PM -0800 11/27/00, Kent Stewart wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I would think that somewhere along the line we would update >> the information in the handbook, just out of courtesy. If >> we have no intention of ever updating this web page, then >> let's remove the 'makeworld.html' web page, and replace it >> with a pointer to the UPDATING file. > >Which UPDATING file are you going to point to. It can be >different for each release of the system. The manual way also >still applies for the older versions. Yeah. The other thing I was going to suggest was that it might be a good idea to breakup this 'makeworld.html' page, based on system-version, because several parts of it are no longer required for release 4.x systems. I wasn't sure of the best way to do that. For that matter, the makeworld web page includes information for updating release 2.x systems, and I don't think freebsd really supports 2.x anymore. Just for some background, when I'm upgrading a system, I have one nice system with a huge monitor (which happens to be a Mac), while the system I'm actually upgrading might be a machine which doesn't have a decent monitor, or even have X installed. So, for me it's usually more convenient to start by reading the handbook pages via the web, and then only read the "new entries" in UPDATING using vi. (by "new entries", I mean the things added since the last time I cvsup-ed the system in question...) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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