From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 22 6:32:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B89B37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:32:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0953343E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:32:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003012214323600100hnrm2e>; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:32:37 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0MEWZRG013774; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0MEWZC7013773; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200301221432.h0MEWZC7013773@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20021120 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Udo Erdelhoff Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a publication date to the installation instructions In-Reply-To: <20030121191802.GE173@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <20030120205441.GC173@nathan.ruhr.de> <200301211651.h0LGp9nS001708@intruder.bmah.org> <20030121191802.GE173@nathan.ruhr.de> Comments: In-reply-to Udo Erdelhoff message dated "Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:18:02 +0100." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-926300294P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:32:35 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-926300294P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > Bruce, > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:51:09AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > The problem with the installation instructions is that the content is > > scattered throughout several files and there is not any single > > $FreeBSD$ tag you (or anybody) can use to give the latest revision date > > for the document as a whole. > > I hate it when you are right and have to ditch one of my half-cooked ideas > into the trashcan. Obviously, adding a visible $FreeBSD$ tag to each > file would look... strange. I'm only right because I've run into this problem too. Also I *designed* this mess. :-) > > I *think* you can do this for the installation guide as well, and I > > wouldn't object to somebody doing this if it can be made to work. > > Why do I get the nasty feeling that this will be more complicated > than just doing a gigantic cat * > newfile.sgml? I haven't really looked at this (ENOTIME) but it might actually *be* that easy. > > It can't be done for the hardware notes, because there are some MD > > files. > > Which mean that even if I manage to add a usefull publication date to > the installation instructions, I am still short of my target of having > a way to automatically identify the parts of the rendered release notes > that are out of date... short of building them and running diff, that > is. But you'd be closer. A lot of these problems (believe it or not) would go away if we had better conditionals for building text. Heck, cpp(1) would do better than what I'm using now. :-( Bruce. --==_Exmh_-926300294P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+LquD2MoxcVugUsMRAk9WAKCkeWM7FbEsr/Jext8n0oL8vdBuZACdGldt RSiOu0GkwpkfRwUg8wXdM3U= =P/ui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-926300294P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message