Preface need update.

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 15 11:29:06 UTC 2008


On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:32:07 -0800
"Murray Stokely" <murray at stokely.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for that!  I definitely slacked here, but I'll keep this
> > in mind for the future.  About the updating chapter, I am unable
> > to find any information on portsnap in my printed copy of the
> > Handbook (third edition).  They could have existed (I see a
> > 2006 commit date for freebsd-update in src) but seem to have
> > not been documented in the handbook.
> 
> Ahh, I see, nothing was moved over from the Cutting Edge chapter.
> 
> This chapter has just about the exact same purpose as the new Updating
> chapter, they just describe different tools.  The first chapter
> Updating, even references the latter chapter (Cutting Edge) as a
> pre-requisite in the synopsis by saying one needs to read it to learn
> about Mergemaster.
> 
> There should only be one updating chapter.  Cutting Edge was there
> first, but updating is maybe a better name.
> 
> How do you feel about merging them back into one chapter?
> 
> > Anyway, how does this patch look to you?:
> 
> Everything else looks good, except I don't like that we now have two
> chapters for updating instead of one.  I wasn't paying attention when
> that happened. =)  Maybe just submit the new item for auditing while
> we sort out what to do about updating?
> 
>         - Murray
> 

Works for me.  Let me work over a patch today (I should have
enough time) and get it out.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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