From owner-freebsd-doc Sat May 11 6:35:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E67A37B401; Sat, 11 May 2002 06:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a174.otenet.gr [212.205.215.174]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4BDYsG1029044; Sat, 11 May 2002 16:34:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4BDYoKk003171; Sat, 11 May 2002 16:34:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.2/Submit) id g4BDYoRx003166; Sat, 11 May 2002 16:34:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 16:34:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Martin Heinen Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Gregory Neil Shapiro Subject: Re: docs/36773: Unclear/inconsistent instructions in Handbook section 19.4.3 Message-ID: <20020511133447.GA2986@hades.hell.gr> References: <200205110950.g4B9o8x33378@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020511135551.D25671@sumuk.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020511135551.D25671@sumuk.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 2002-05-11 13:55, Martin Heinen wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 02:50:08AM -0700, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > How does this look? > > fine, comments inline > > > %%% > > Index: chapter.sgml > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v > > retrieving revision 1.120 > > diff -u -r1.120 chapter.sgml > > --- chapter.sgml 4 May 2002 14:22:34 -0000 1.120 > > +++ chapter.sgml 11 May 2002 09:16:22 -0000 > > @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ > > > > > > > > - Update <filename>/etc/group</filename> > > + Update the files of <filename>/etc</filename> > > > > The /etc directory contains a large part > > of your system's configuration information, as well as scripts > > @@ -697,13 +697,13 @@ > > There have been occasions when the installation part of > > make world has expected certain usernames or groups > > to exist. When performing an upgrade it is likely that these > > - groups did not exist. This caused problems when upgrading. > > + users or groups did not exist. This caused problems when upgrading. > > > > - The most recent example of this is when the > - (later renamed > - installation process fail for them when parts of the > > - ppp subsystem were installed using a > > - non-existent (for them) group name. > > + The most recent example of this is when the > > How about 'A recent example'? This avoids having to update this > section each time a new user is introduced. Ya. This is probably better. I stopped for a few seconds here, but I thought it won't be much trouble to keep this up to date as we come across it. Perhaps 'A recent example' will save us from duplicating src/UPDATING at this spot :-P > mergemaster now hat the -p option, I would like to mention that > here, like: > > %%% > Index: chapter.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /u/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.121 > diff -u -r1.121 chapter.sgml > --- chapter.sgml 10 May 2002 16:12:14 -0000 1.121 > +++ chapter.sgml 11 May 2002 11:49:46 -0000 > @@ -713,6 +713,18 @@ > the same GID but a different name to those in > /usr/src/etc/group. > > + Since 4.6-RELEASE you can run &man.mergemaster.8; in > + pre-buildworld mode by providing the option. > + This will compare only those files that are essential for the success > + of buildworld or > + installworld. If your old version of > + mergemaster does not support , > + use the new version in the source tree when running for the first > + time: > + > + &prompt.root; cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster > +&prompt.root; ./mergemaster.sh -p > + Cool. I'll add this one as I update. Whitespace has come a bit funny out in my mailbox, but that can be fixed in a breeze if necessary. Thank you :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message