Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:41:54 +0100 From: Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> To: bcr@FreeBSD.org Cc: "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: patch to remove FreeBSD < 7 from the Handbook Message-ID: <4CEA5702.20107@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4CE93EE7.5050504@FreeBSD.org> References: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> <4CE93EE7.5050504@FreeBSD.org>
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Op 21-11-2010 16:46, Benedict Reuschling schreef: > Am 19.11.10 17:42, schrieb Rene Ladan: >> 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. > >> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/handbook.diff >> SIZE = 115079 >> SHA256 = 1efcd3dc978c9d969c7aff9576fb63a374208e108d906af3895d7c7f5d2a1ffd > >> Cheers, >> Rene > > Thanks for all the work you did, Rene! I agree with you about Kerberos > and SAP being too old to be relevant for the recent releases. > Do you suggest removing the SAP section altogether? It would save some 2000 lines... > The only comment I have about your patch is that you added some > SGML-comments in various places (starting with "rene"). If you want, you > can add some of them to the handbook section of the DocIdeaList [2] for > someone to work on them. That way, you can remove the comments from your > patch before committing it, but keep the comments as a sort of todo-list > in the wiki. > I'll wait if someone has a fix for the "simpler" ones, and put the rest on the DocIdeaList. > [2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/DocIdeaList > Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = ADBC ECCD EB5F A6B4 549F 600D 8C9E 647A E564 2BFC (subkeys.pgp.net)
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