docs/123920: [patch] Fix Information about the Documentation Packages in FAQ
Gabor PALI
pgj at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 23 05:20:01 UTC 2008
>Number: 123920
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Fix Information about the Documentation Packages in FAQ
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri May 23 05:20:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gabor PALI
>Release: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD disznohal 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #4: Fri Apr 4 23:29:43 CEST 2008 dezzy at disznohal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_ i386
>Description:
I was sorry to found that documentation packages are not working as
mentioned in the FreeBSD FAQ, Question 2.2 ``Is the documentation
available in other formats, such as plain text (ASCII), or
PostScript?''. I created a patch to temporarily remove the text
describing this method, because it is unavailable these days as
there is no documentation packages at all (at least I did not find
any on the FTP servers).
However, I would be happy to help to reanimate these packages.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- books.faq.patch.5.diff begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.811
diff -u -r1.811 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 12 Apr 2008 20:13:12 -0000 1.811
+++ book.sgml 23 May 2008 03:31:48 -0000
@@ -925,7 +925,8 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>After choosing the format and compression mechanism that you
- want to download, you must then decide whether or not you want to
+ want to download, <!-- FIXME: this method is not working right now (2008-05-23)
+ you must then decide whether or not you want to
download the document as a FreeBSD
<emphasis>package</emphasis>.</para>
@@ -968,7 +969,7 @@
have been installed into
<filename>/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq</filename>.</para>
- <para>If you do not want to use the packages then you will have to
+ <para>If you do not want to use the packages then --> you will have to
download the compressed files yourself, uncompress them, and then
copy the appropriate documents into place.</para>
--- books.faq.patch.5.diff ends here ---
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