[RFC] A Handbook Section on Updating the Documentation Set

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 27 21:41:20 UTC 2008


On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:20:19 -0800
"Murray Stokely" <murray at stokely.org> wrote:

> Looks good to me.  It could use some <indexterm>s to add index entries
> for the new sections if you are feeling ambitious, but that doesn't
> need to block the commit.

The entire probably needs one or two of these, we can definitely
do that.  Approved here too.


> 
>        - Murray
> 
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:29:48 +0100, Gabor PALI <pgj at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In reply to a previous discussion about documentation packages and
> >>> Docsnap [1], I have created a patch about how to update the
> >>> documentation set.  This patch adds a section to the FreeBSD Handbook,
> >>> Chapter 24. "Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD".  It describes some
> >>> methods for updating, like using CVSup and rebuilding the
> >>> documentation from source, and using Docsnap.  Of course, other
> >>> methods can be added later on, you can think of it as a stub for such
> >>> methods.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Thank Giorgos, Manolis, Rene, and Tom for the early reviews and
> >>> comments, and thanks for further replies in advance.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>> [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2008-December/015099.html
> >>> [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/patches/2008/12/27/updating-upgrading-documentation.patch.diff
> >>>
> >>
> >> It goes without saying that after his patience with all my comments
> >> about the patch, and the changes we made this afternoon, Gabor has my
> >> full approval for the patch :)
> >>
> >>
> > Fully supported by me too :)
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