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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:49:03 GMT
From:      Tom <trh411@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/176451: (patch) Handbook Ch 25.7 typos and incidental edits
Message-ID:  <201302262049.r1QKn3MQ048390@red.freebsd.org>
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>Number:         176451
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       (patch) Handbook Ch 25.7 typos and incidental edits
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 26 20:50:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tom
>Release:        9.1-RELEASE GENERIC
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
>Description:
Suggested corrections to typos and incidental editing of FreeBSD Handbook, Chapter 25, Section 7. Ref: 

/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml (r41051)
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Patch attached.

Patch attached with submission follows:

--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml	2013-02-18 13:25:18.000000000 -0500
+++ chapter.xml	2013-02-26 14:42:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -1813,8 +1813,8 @@
 	up-to-date, refer to <xref linkend="synching"/> for detailed
 	help about synchronizing to a newer version.</para>
 
-      <para>Updating the system from source is a more subtle than
-	it might initially seem to be, and the &os; developers have
+      <para>Updating the system from source is a more subtle process 
+        than it might initially seem to be, and the &os; developers have
 	found it necessary over the years to change the recommended
 	approach fairly dramatically as new kinds of unavoidable
 	dependencies come to light.  The rest of this section
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>
-	  <para>Some configuration changes must be done before the new
+	  <para>Some configuration changes must be made before the new
 	    world is installed, but others might break the old world.
 	    Hence, two different configuration upgrade steps are
 	    generally needed.</para>
@@ -1946,7 +1946,7 @@
 	  <para><command>mergemaster</command></para>
 
 	  <para>Repeated to update the remaining configuration files,
-	    not that the new world is on disk.</para>
+	    now that the new world is on disk.</para>
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>
@@ -2217,7 +2217,7 @@
 	<para><emphasis>Do not</emphasis> save the output in <filename
 	    class="directory">/tmp</filename> as this directory may be
 	  cleared at next reboot.  A better place to save the file is
-	  <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename>or in
+	  <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename> or in
 	  <username>root</username>'s home directory.</para>
       </sect3>
 
@@ -2234,8 +2234,7 @@
 	<para>To rebuild the world, use &man.make.1;.  This command
 	  reads instructions from the <filename>Makefile</filename>,
 	  which describes how the programs that comprise &os; should
-	  be rebuilt and the order in which they should be
-	  built.</para>
+	  be built and the order in which they should be built.</para>
 
 	<para>The general format of the command is as follows:</para>
 
@@ -2542,7 +2541,7 @@
       <sect3>
 	<title>Manual Update</title>
 
-	<para>To instead perform the update manually, do not just copy
+	<para>To perform the update manually instead, do not just copy
 	  over the files from
 	  <filename class="directory">/usr/src/etc</filename> to
 	  <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> and expect it to
@@ -2580,7 +2579,7 @@
 
 	<para>Next, build a dummy set of directories to install the
 	  new <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> and other
-	  files into.  <filename
+	  files into <filename
 	    class="directory">/var/tmp/root</filename> is a reasonable
 	  choice:</para>
 
@@ -2898,7 +2897,7 @@
 	      <listitem>
 		<para>Turn off profiling by setting
 		  <quote>NO_PROFILE=true</quote> in
-		  <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename>).</para>
+		  <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename>.</para>
 	      </listitem>
 
 	      <listitem>


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