[RFC] A Handbook Section on Updating the Documentation Set

Murray Stokely murray at stokely.org
Sat Dec 27 21:20:21 UTC 2008


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.

       - 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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