Stale documentation

Hi. On my travels, I stumbled on http://www.pl.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html which is old and not in sync with the main FreeBSD site. Also, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/consoles.html still mentions vesa stuff. Cheers ___ freebs

Re: Stale documentation

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Unfortunately doc@ is wrong place to report that, nothing will > happen unless you (or someone) find who controls update for that > country's servers. [ ... ] Thanks Julian. I'll do that. Incidently, I emailed 'doc' not even realising it was a list, as at the bottom

Re: docs/100196: man login.conf does explain not " unlimited"

The following reply was made to PR docs/100196; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jamie Landeg Jones To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, wald...@gmx.de Cc: Subject: Re: docs/100196: man login.conf does explain not "unlimited" Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:03:38 +0800 --047d7b62535ac2c174

docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 16 06:30:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jamie Landeg Jones >Release:FreeBSD 9.

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

> Agreed. However, this is "contrib" software from an external source, > and we generally prefer to get them patched upstream to avoid having to > maintain local patches. I think this is the project page: > http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/ > > It's not clear how they prefer to get bug rep

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

The following reply was made to PR docs/184791; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jamie Landeg Jones To: wbl...@wonkity.com, ja...@dyslexicfish.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

> > >The man page for diff3(1) refers to 'info diff' instead of > > >'info diff3' Thanks guys for your responses and help. I followed this up, and it's been corrected in the latest version of diffutils. How readily would Freebsd accept a port/merge/update of this? cheers, Jamie

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

The following reply was made to PR docs/184791; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jamie Landeg Jones To: wbl...@wonkity.com, r...@ringlet.net Cc: ja...@dyslexicfish.net, freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for '

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

> > Normally, it would come in when the local diffutils are updated to the > latest upstream version. I don't know when that will be or who would > handle it. Yeah, that's what I meant. I'd be willing to have a look at it myself if I knew they were open to submissions! Cheers, Jamie _

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

The following reply was made to PR docs/184791; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jamie Landeg Jones To: wbl...@wonkity.com, ja...@dyslexicfish.net Cc: r...@ringlet.net, freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for '

Re: docs/184791: [patch] man page for 'diff3' references 'info diff' instead of 'info diff3'

Warren Block wrote: > I looked a bit more. We currently have a fairly old version of > diffutils, 2.8.7. It's unlikely that newer versions will be imported > because they are GPL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase > > Instead, there is a project to import the OpenBSD versions: > https://wiki

docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page

ate-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 09 22:20:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jamie Landeg-Jones >Release:FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE amd64 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD catnip.dysle

Re: docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page

Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > I think that the current ~upstream for the tzcode is supposed to be > https://github.com/eggert/tz/ , but I haven't checked particularly > recently. (There was some excitement involving a legal action, etc., so > it had gone away and/or moved.) That said, I don't see

Re: docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page

The following reply was made to PR docs/186608; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jamie Landeg-Jones To: ja...@dyslexicfish.net, b...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/186608: typo in 'ctime(3) man page Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:

docs/188043: man page for md5/sha1/sha256/sha412/rmd-160 cleanup

>Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 29 10:10:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jamie Landeg-Jones >Release:FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE amd64 >Organization: Dyslexic Fish >Envi

Re: make lint

Graham Perrin wrote: > > suggests: > > make lint > > I tried it whilst at /usr/src and at /usr/doc > > In both cases, > > > make: don't know how to make lint. Stop > > … > > What am I missing? LINT files are no longer c

Re: make lint

> LINT files are no longer created. Someone needs to prod the doc. team. Ooops, should have looked more closely at the email address I was replying to!

Re: Localized versions of freebsd.org outdated and linked to by google

Michael Gmelin wrote: > What I noticed while getting to localized versions is that some of > these pages are really outdated and/or broken, even those central to > the project. Tangentally related, in the past I got caught out by googling the FreeBSD manpage for something, and the google hit wen