Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:14:17 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw man pages vs. 5.3-Stable; needs modification! Message-ID: <414FE2D9.7040904@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040919143153.GA97135@ip.net.ua> References: <414CF555.2090209@yahoo.com> <20040919122152.GA96753@ip.net.ua> <20040919123148.GA11758@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20040919143153.GA97135@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:31:48PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > >>On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:21:52PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:56:21AM +0900, Rob wrote: >>> >>>>Hello, >>>> >>>>The manpages of ipfw needs modification with respect to >>>>the IPFW vs.IPFW2 discussion. >>>>All this is quite misleading when 5.3 becomes stable. >>>> >>> >>>Do you mean you want the IPFW vs. IPFW2 information to be >>>removed from the manpage? If yes, I don't support this. >>>There will be a lot of people switching from 4.x to 5.x, >>>and it can be helpful for them. We can remove this in >>>future releases though. >> >>He probably means that the references to -STABLE in the manpage needs >>to be changed to say 4.x instead (and the references to -CURRENT >>probably should say 5.x instead), since when 5.3 becomes stable it will >>no longer be true that -STABLE uses IPFW as default (which is what the >>manpage says.) >> > > Ah yes, indeed. See if ipfw.8,v 1.152 is what you wanted. > If it's ok, I will order an MFC. This is indeed what is needed to make the ipfw man page correct for 5.3 release; please have this accepted before 5.3 is released!! Rob.
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