Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:26:06 GMT From: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/150708: minor fixes for porter's handbook "slow porting/patching" subsection Message-ID: <201009182126.o8ILQ69E060867@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201009182130.o8ILU1DU008266@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>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@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> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:help
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