From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 11:42:02 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 1206F1065675; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:42:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660908FC16; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so3679460ewy.13 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:42:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9DPy97admk2Hp5IFORfaAKnqpTHo/neFp6L/heKaEsM=; b=VmZ8ucYAYmczdBUbSqVtf5PPF+lPhjzPDwSaLb9atbguPlvxROmTH+XrZTIbd+zbCL VOkgv+PnwHm6dW0q7ciG/e0+LXmzjapSdVy+JNpB/pqrIcLyoJZSt1cKRKq6cIHmnXFg Ddn/IsOGFvq+lto4fpVBVq8giCirGvmsInt7A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=EHBEa3NzWFNRGai/0M2qva9F5MWRZpTNztVD2Ft88k6BEMw2rIp1dVY8OPv3FmTunf VDHspOum77tK0EJzYN4Daxs/7jz8loHEBKhy7R9M3b5D/9X0isP/prVwNxT8pJrGNuhR 6RO25mmPiZ5Cu5Qr/Z9K4jZ14Jh6z1NjEWl20= Received: by 10.213.8.70 with SMTP id g6mr4303273ebg.44.1290426120161; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:42:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.64] (ip4da3ae31.direct-adsl.nl [77.163.174.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm4614835eei.13.2010.11.22.03.41.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:41:57 -0800 (PST) Sender: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Ladan?= Message-ID: <4CEA5702.20107@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:41:54 +0100 From: Rene Ladan Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; nl-NL; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bcr@FreeBSD.org References: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> <4CE93EE7.5050504@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4CE93EE7.5050504@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:42:02 -0000 Op 21-11-2010 16:46, Benedict Reuschling schreef: > Am 19.11.10 17:42, schrieb Rene Ladan: >> 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. > >> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/handbook.diff >> SIZE = 115079 >> SHA256 = 1efcd3dc978c9d969c7aff9576fb63a374208e108d906af3895d7c7f5d2a1ffd > >> Cheers, >> Rene > > Thanks for all the work you did, Rene! I agree with you about Kerberos > and SAP being too old to be relevant for the recent releases. > Do you suggest removing the SAP section altogether? It would save some 2000 lines... > The only comment I have about your patch is that you added some > SGML-comments in various places (starting with "rene"). If you want, you > can add some of them to the handbook section of the DocIdeaList [2] for > someone to work on them. That way, you can remove the comments from your > patch before committing it, but keep the comments as a sort of todo-list > in the wiki. > I'll wait if someone has a fix for the "simpler" ones, and put the rest on the DocIdeaList. > [2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/DocIdeaList > Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = ADBC ECCD EB5F A6B4 549F 600D 8C9E 647A E564 2BFC (subkeys.pgp.net)