Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:34:55 +0100 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> Cc: "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: patch to remove FreeBSD < 7 from the Handbook Message-ID: <20101120183455.GC12322@pluto.vnode.local> In-Reply-To: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> References: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org>
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On 19-11-2010 17:42, Rene Ladan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi list, > > Because FreeBSD 6.X will be officially unsupported after this month, I > made a patch [1] to streamline the Handbook so that it only supports > FreeBSD 7.X and up (assuming I did not miss anything). > > Some more notes: > - - old versions in historical context are left in tact. > - - the section about KerberosIV has been removed, since it is applicable > to FreeBSD < 6 only > - - the instructions to install SAP R/3 have been commented out for now, > since they were last tested on FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.5. Maybe these and the > other instructions about installing Linux applications should be > converted to articles? > - - XFree86 has been removed from the text (except when in historical > context), only X.Org is supported these days. > - - Some port paths have been updated (e.g. mail/pine -> mail/alpine) > - - definitions for ctm-src-[5-8] have been added to mailing-lists.ent to > fully support updating FreeBSD version numbers in examples. > > I put some comments for others to look at (screenshots for alpine and > updated instructions for MAC come to mind). And no, I will not commit > this before having received some feedback. I think the diff looks fine. There are more sections in the handbook that I'd like to rewrite or remove altogether, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. I'd say go for it. -- Joel
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