From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 2 7:56: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F53437B421 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g32Frwq00104; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:53:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:01:55 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Ceri Cc: roam@ringlet.net, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36618: [PATCH] Chapter Storage: bad link to mkisofs Message-Id: <20020402110155.31a21fac.darklogik@pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20020402114210.GB8887@submonkey.net> References: <200204011710.g31HA4891168@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020401202402.B1814@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20020402114210.GB8887@submonkey.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:42:10 +0100 Ceri wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:24:02PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > > > I'll take this one. Martin, I feel with you, the and > > > tags in the Primer MAY need a little bit added > > > to them, so that users can understand the difference. A few > > > times I have been smacked by the difference in use, ask > > > Ceri about Re: NFS and the part he pointed out where it was > > > not a command ;) > > You still have the scars ?! :) Never will they heal ;) > > Murray and I were talking about this one just a few days ago, where > I strongly objected to using role="package">sysutils/cdrtools actually install mkisofs. > > In the interim I think we went for omitting the markup altogether, > but I'm not sure as I don't recall actually looking. The commit log > for doc/.../books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml should hold the truth > (iirc). hmmm. I do not think we should just drop the markup, because then a new user may try to run the application and wonder why its not working like we say. Perhaps, a link to the port? Just tags? Maybe a regular tag would do. But we should point out that this is NOT part of the base system ;) > > > > Even though this has been pointed out before, its about time > > > SOMEONE fixed it. Thanks alot for your help Martin! > > > > As noted in PR docs/32468, the real fix would be to add an > > attribute to the (it was at the time of > > discussion of 32468, it's now :), which overrides the > > default pkg-descr file. Then, everywhere mkisofs is mentioned, it > > should just point to the cdrtools pkg-descr file. > > Agreed. I'd volunteer, but I don't believe my powers quite reach > that far yet. Perhaps a or something dumb like that, for ports that a pkg-descr is not availible. This one is your call Ceri, were both still mentor-bound ;) > > Ceri > > -- > keep a mild groove on > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message