docs/150708: minor fixes for porter's handbook "slow porting/patching" subsection

Ben Kaduk kaduk at mit.edu
Sat Sep 18 21:30:02 UTC 2010


>Number:         150708
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       minor fixes for porter's handbook "slow porting/patching" subsection
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 18 21:30:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Kaduk
>Release:        9-current
>Organization:
MIT SIPB
>Environment:
FreeBSD hysteresis.mit.edu 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #25: Mon May 17 20:37:32 EDT 2010     kaduk at hysteresis.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
minor nits in the text and formatting -- the <maketarget> tag is for make targets, not for commands the user should run
>How-To-Repeat:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html
>Fix:
patch attached

Patch attached with submission follows:

--- book.sgml.orig	2010-09-18 17:05:49.000000000 -0400
+++ book.sgml	2010-09-18 17:17:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -673,7 +673,8 @@
 	<para>Please only use characters <literal>[-+._a-zA-Z0-9]</literal> for
 	  naming your patches.  Do not use any other characters besides them.
 	  Do not name your patches like <filename>patch-aa</filename> or
-	  <filename>patch-ab</filename> etc, always mention path and file name
+	  <filename>patch-ab</filename> etc, always mention the path
+	  and file name
 	  in patch names.</para>
 
 	<para>Do not put RCS strings in patches.  CVS will mangle them when we
@@ -745,8 +746,8 @@
 	<para>If you want to create a patch file based off of an
 	  existing file, you can copy it with an
 	  <filename>.orig</filename> extension, and then modify the
-	  original one.  Run <maketarget>makepatch</maketarget>, and
-	  this will write out an appropriate patch file to the <filename
+	  original one.  The <maketarget>makepatch</maketarget> target
+	  will write out an appropriate patch file to the <filename
 	    class="directory">files</filename> directory of the
 	  port.</para>
       </sect1>


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