Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:31:48 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw man pages vs. 5.3-Stable; needs modification! Message-ID: <20040919123148.GA11758@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20040919122152.GA96753@ip.net.ua> References: <414CF555.2090209@yahoo.com> <20040919122152.GA96753@ip.net.ua>
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:21:52PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:56:21AM +0900, Rob wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > The manpages of ipfw needs modification with respect to > > the IPFW vs.IPFW2 discussion. > > All this is quite misleading when 5.3 becomes stable. > > > Do you mean you want the IPFW vs. IPFW2 information to be > removed from the manpage? If yes, I don't support this. > There will be a lot of people switching from 4.x to 5.x, > and it can be helpful for them. We can remove this in > future releases though. He probably means that the references to -STABLE in the manpage needs to be changed to say 4.x instead (and the references to -CURRENT probably should say 5.x instead), since when 5.3 becomes stable it will no longer be true that -STABLE uses IPFW as default (which is what the manpage says.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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