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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