docs/75694: Wrong date in handbook, section 24.4

Marian Cerny jojo at matfyz.cz
Fri Dec 31 19:50:27 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/75694; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marian Cerny <jojo at matfyz.cz>
To: Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/75694: Wrong date in handbook, section 24.4
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:47:21 +0100

 > You are right insofar, that PF was imported into the FreeBSD source tree
 > in 2004.  The porting, however, started much earlier: in the summer
 > of 2003.  PF was available though the ports collection from late 2003
 > on.
 > 
 > Does this address your concerns?
 
 Does this sentence:
 
 	As of July 2003 the OpenBSD firewall software application known
 	as PF was ported to FreeBSD 5.3.
 
 mean:
 
 	*From* July 2003 the OpenBSD firewall software application known
 	as PF was ported to FreeBSD 5.3.
 
 ? Shouldn't it then be:
 
 	As of July 2003 the OpenBSD firewall software application known
 	as PF was ported to FreeBSD.
 
 (without 5.3). Maybe it should look like:
 
 	As of July 2003 the OpenBSD firewall software application known
 	as PF was ported to FreeBSD. It first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3
 	but was available in ports earlier, from late 2003.
 
 Because if not, it seems strange to me, that it was ported in 2003 into
 FreeBSD 5.3, which was released in 2004.
 
 But again, I am not an english native speaker, so it may be 100% correct
 and I understand it wrong.



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