Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:20:02 GMT From: Chess Griffin <chess@chessgriffin.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/121197: [patch] edits to books/porters-handbook Message-ID: <200802291520.m1TFK2xv049109@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/121197; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Chess Griffin <chess@chessgriffin.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, chess@chessgriffin.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: docs/121197: [patch] edits to books/porters-handbook
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:18:07 -0500
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Wow, that attachment came through pretty ugly. Here it is again:
--- book.sgml.orig 2008-02-28 19:06:47.000000000 -0500
+++ book.sgml 2008-02-29 10:17:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -2465,10 +2465,10 @@
hereon.</para>
=20
<para>A little background first. OpenBSD has a neat feature
- inside both <makevar>DISTFILES</makevar> and
- <makevar>PATCHFILES</makevar> variables, both files and
- patches can be postfixed with <literal>:n</literal>
- identifiers where <literal>n</literal> both can be
+ inside the <makevar>DISTFILES</makevar> and
+ <makevar>PATCHFILES</makevar> variables which allows files and
+ patches to be postfixed with <literal>:n</literal>
+ identifiers, where <literal>n</literal> both can be
<literal>[0-9]</literal> and denote a group designation.
For example:</para>
=20
@@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@
as hell where <filename>beta</filename> is carried by all
sites in <makevar>MASTER_SITES</makevar>, and
<filename>alpha</filename> can only be found in the 20th
- site. It would be such a waste to check all of them if
+ site. It would be such a waste to check all of them if the
maintainer knew this beforehand, would it not? Not a good
start for that lovely weekend!</para>
=20
@@ -3174,7 +3174,7 @@
challenge for port maintainers</ulink> section.</para>
=20
<para>Changes to the port will be sent to the maintainer of
- a port for a review and an approval before being committed.
+ a port for review and approval before being committed.
If the maintainer does not respond to an update
request after two weeks (excluding major public
holidays), then that is considered a maintainer timeout, and the
@@ -3191,7 +3191,7 @@
Collection without explicit blessing from the submitter.
Also, large infrastructural changes can result in
a port being modified without maintainer's consent.
- This kind of changes will never affect the port's
+ These kinds of changes will never affect the port's
functionality.</para>
=20
<para>The &a.portmgr; reserves the right to revoke or override
@@ -4181,7 +4181,7 @@
=20
<para>Two macros exists for this situation. The advantage of using
these macros instead of <command>cp</command> is that they guarantee
- proper file ownership and permissions on target files. First macro,
+ proper file ownership and permissions on target files. The first macro,
<makevar>COPYTREE_BIN</makevar>, will set all the installed files to
be executable, thus being suitable for installing into
<filename><makevar>PREFIX</makevar>/bin</filename>. The second
@@ -8591,6 +8591,12 @@
<para>The packing list still has to be tidied up by hand as
stated above.</para>
=20
+ <para>Another tool that might be used to create an initial
+ <filename>pkg-plist</filename> is <filename
+ role=3D"package">ports-mgmt/genplist</filename>. As with any
+ automated tool, the resulting <filename>pkg-plist</filename>
+ should be checked and manually edited as needed.</para>
+
</sect1>
=20
</chapter>
@@ -11809,7 +11815,7 @@
<row>
<entry>7.0-CURRENT after
RFC 3678 API support added to the IPv4 stack.
- Legacy RFC 1724 behaviour of the IP_MULTICAST_IF
+ Legacy RFC 1724 behavior of the IP_MULTICAST_IF
ioctl has now been removed; 0.0.0.0/8 may no longer
be used to specify an interface index.
struct ipmreqn should be used instead.</entry>
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