From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 18:52:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BA81065670; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:52:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [62.119.52.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C926E8FC0C; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vnode.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08D3E3F07A; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:35:00 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vnode.se Received: from mail.vnode.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Hv9krdLJ2flo; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:34:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from pluto.vnode.local (unknown [83.223.1.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D8CBE3F079; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:34:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:34:55 +0100 From: Joel Dahl To: Rene Ladan Message-ID: <20101120183455.GC12322@pluto.vnode.local> References: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: "doc@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: patch to remove FreeBSD < 7 from the Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:52:45 -0000 On 19-11-2010 17:42, Rene Ladan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi list, > > Because FreeBSD 6.X will be officially unsupported after this month, I > made a patch [1] to streamline the Handbook so that it only supports > FreeBSD 7.X and up (assuming I did not miss anything). > > Some more notes: > - - old versions in historical context are left in tact. > - - the section about KerberosIV has been removed, since it is applicable > to FreeBSD < 6 only > - - the instructions to install SAP R/3 have been commented out for now, > since they were last tested on FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.5. Maybe these and the > other instructions about installing Linux applications should be > converted to articles? > - - XFree86 has been removed from the text (except when in historical > context), only X.Org is supported these days. > - - Some port paths have been updated (e.g. mail/pine -> mail/alpine) > - - definitions for ctm-src-[5-8] have been added to mailing-lists.ent to > fully support updating FreeBSD version numbers in examples. > > I put some comments for others to look at (screenshots for alpine and > updated instructions for MAC come to mind). And no, I will not commit > this before having received some feedback. I think the diff looks fine. There are more sections in the handbook that I'd like to rewrite or remove altogether, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. I'd say go for it. -- Joel