docs/61654: [patch] two minor additions to Porter's Handbook
Mark Linimon
linimon at lonesome.com
Tue Jan 20 23:02:12 UTC 2004
>Number: 61654
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] two minor additions to Porter's Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 20 15:00:26 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mark Linimon
>Release: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Lonesome Dove Computing Services
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD lonesome.lonesome.com 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 5 01:19:33 CDT 2003 linimon at lonesome.lonesome.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MULTIMEDIA_DEBUG i386
(n/a)
>Description:
While reviewing the updated Porter's Handbook, I found one
bit of text that was out of date, and one obvious thing to add.
>How-To-Repeat:
(n/a)
>Fix:
--- book.sgml.dist Tue Jan 20 16:33:11 2004
+++ book.sgml Tue Jan 20 16:50:37 2004
@@ -2836,6 +2835,10 @@
<para>The COMMENT variable should immediately follow the MAINTAINER
variable in the <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para>Please try to keep the COMMENT line less than 70
+ characters, as it is displayed to users as a one-line
+ summary of the port.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="makefile-depend">
@@ -3798,8 +3801,8 @@
<sect1 id="using-gnome">
<title>Using GNOME</title>
- <para>The FreeBSD/GNOME project uses a system called
- <literal>GNOMENG</literal> to define which GNOME components a
+ <para>The FreeBSD/GNOME project uses its own set of variables
+ to define which GNOME components a
particular port uses. A
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/porting.html">comprehensive
list of these variables</ulink> exists within the FreeBSD/GNOME
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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