Patches to the FDP Primer (from Last Year)

Gabor PALI pgj at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 19 23:03:20 UTC 2009


Hi Manolis,


>> http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/patches/2008/12/26/fdp-primer.doc-build.patch.diff
>> - Remove description of (documentation) package target as it is not
>> supported and it will be changed. [..]
>
> So is the 'package' target broken? Admittedly I've never used it before
> reading your patch, but it seems it worked for me, building a package
> for the fdp-primer.

Yes, this target is probably working, but deprecated.  I am thinking
of this because hrs@ told me so [1], and maybe that is why blackend@
is experimenting with a new packaging solution [2].  So I felt it to
be posted to the list.


> I could install it with pkg_add, but then
> pkg_delete errored out trying to uninstall it.  Not sure whether we
> should completely remove it from the docs though.

But there must be a reason why this is not used anymore...


> This is all nice work. I've been struggling with the translation of
> ppp-and-slip lately (plus I had rather limited spare time), hence the
> late reply.

No problem at all.  Take your time.


> I think it would be ok to commit all the above, maybe get a
> few opinions on removing the reference to the package target. I see no
> other problems.

Sure.  Thank you for your review very much.  Maybe we should involve
other Greek guys stalking around here :P


Best Wishes,
:g

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2008-May/014318.html
[2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2008-December/015088.html



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