Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:50:04 GMT From: Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/140490: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering Article Message-ID: <200911120250.nAC2o4mW049234@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org>
To: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/140490: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering
Article
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:19:58 -0800
This looks like a good change to me. Thanks for the submission.
- Murray
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote:
>
>>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 140490
>>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 docs
>>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 Add custom kernel information to Release Engineerin=
g Article
>>Confidential: =A0 no
>>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 non-critical
>>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 low
>>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-doc
>>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
>>Quarter:
>>Keywords:
>>Date-Required:
>>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0change-request
>>Submitter-Id: =A0 current-users
>>Arrival-Date: =A0 Wed Nov 11 19:10:01 UTC 2009
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator: =A0 =A0 Jason Helfman
>>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0FreeBSD 7.2
>>Organization:
> Experts Exchange
>>Environment:
> FreeBSD eggman.experts-exchange.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4=
#0: Fri Oct =A02 12:21:39 UTC 2009 =A0 =A0 root@i386-builder.daemonology.n=
et:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =A0i386
>>Description:
> Add custom kernel instructions to Releng Article.
>>How-To-Repeat:
>
>>Fix:
>
>
> Patch attached with submission follows:
>
> --- article.sgml.orig =A0 2009-06-24 15:25:26.000000000 -0700
> +++ article.sgml =A0 =A0 =A0 =A02009-11-11 11:01:26.000000000 -0800
> @@ -798,6 +798,17 @@
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 should be made bootable so that users of modern PCs do no=
t
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 need to create installation floppy disks.</para>
>
> + =A0 =A0 =A0<para>If a custom kernel of &os; is to be included, then
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0&man.sysinstall.8; and &man.release.7; must be updated t=
o
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0include installation instructions. The relevant code is =
contained
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0in <filename>src/release</filename> and <filename>src/us=
r.sbin/sysinstall</filename>.
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Specifically, the file <filename>src/release/Makefile</f=
ilename>, and
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>dist.c</filename>, <filename>dist.h</filename>=
,
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>menus.c</filename>, <filename>install.c</filen=
ame>, and
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>Makefile</filename> will need to be updated un=
der
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>src/usr.sbin/sysinstall</filename>. =A0Optiona=
lly, you may choose
> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0to update <filename>sysinstall.8</filename>.</para>
> +
> =A0 =A0 =A0 <para>If an alternate version of &xfree86; is to be provided,=
then
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 &man.sysinstall.8; must be updated to reflect the new loc=
ation
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 and installation instructions. The relevant code is conta=
ined
>
>
>>Release-Note:
>>Audit-Trail:
>>Unformatted:
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