From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 11:55:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F553133; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:55:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uqs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (acme.spoerlein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:23c2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8118FC08; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (acme.spoerlein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:23c2::1]) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9KBtkoG032494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:55:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uqs@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:55:46 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= To: Gregory Shapiro Subject: Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months Message-ID: <20121020115545.GJ69724@acme.spoerlein.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gregory Shapiro , current@FreeBSD.org References: <20121019143617.GF69724@acme.spoerlein.net> <20121019155542.GQ1967@funkthat.com> <20121019161124.GZ35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20121019162433.GY601@rugsucker.smi.sendmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121019162433.GY601@rugsucker.smi.sendmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:55:48 -0000 On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 09:24:33 -0700, Gregory Shapiro wrote: > > > > Ulrich Sprlein wrote this message on Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 16:36 +0200: > > > > those roff sources have been very naughty and will be removed from the > > > > tree by the end of the year. Most of those papers are severely out of > > > > date and provide no more use to the system. They can probably also be > > > > found online using a search engine of your choice. > > As pointed out: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:11:24PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > And e.g. sendmail documentation is fresh and updated together with > > sendmail imports, AFAIR. > > Konstantin is correct -- every sendmail import refreshes what is built > by share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/Makefile. That document (operations > guide) should not be removed. > > > > > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them > > > > over to the doc repository. > > That would cause a problem for contrib/ style imports like sendmail. > In the base source tree, share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/Makefile (for > example) reads the documentation files from contrib/sendmail/doc/. > Moving share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/Makefile to a different repo would be > an issue since the document source files are in the src repo. I don't > think contrib packages should be imported into two trees. Which wouldn't have been a problem if we went with a single subversion repository, and not three, but oh well. While the current situation is nice wrt. sendmail, we have tons of information for system administration in the handbook, which is practically only available online. There's no reason sendmail should be special in this regard, but we'll have to figure something out on how to build this then ... Cheers, Uli