Re: Handbook x-config-quick-start is missing information to configure HAL and DBUS

On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Benedict Reuschling wrote: Am 03.04.15 um 17:07 schrieb Warren Block: Yes. xorg-server does not use HAL by default any more. I'm tempted to just remove the HAL/DBUS part of the quick start. Really, the whole Xorg installation section needs a rewrite. I have an ou

Re: Handbook x-config-quick-start is missing information to configure HAL and DBUS

On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Kaio Rafael wrote: Sure, xorg does not use it, but Gnome does https://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html I am gnome user Right, but even with Gnome using HAL, X does not need it. ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Handbook x-config-quick-start is missing information to configure HAL and DBUS

On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Kaio Rafael wrote: The point here is not about which service needs HAL. My feedback was that I got an error following the procedure. Probably, those instruction should be changed to a proper place, such as The X Display Manager [1] I would say we should have separate HAL i

Re: Improvement to pthread_getspecific(3)

On Mon, 18 May 2015, Patrick Kelsey wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2015, John Baldwin wrote: 2. Markup - should I be using .Pq instead of explicit parentheses? We do not have a strong preference for Pq over explicit parentheses, so I would

Re: documentation - invalid url

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, maxfiedler1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm reading through the handbook online and just realized there is an invalid url in chapter "2.4.1. Booting on i386? and amd64"; the url to the Plop Boot Manager is no longer http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html but now http://www

Re: Wrong URL for new Leap Seconds article on www.freebsd.org

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Hans Ottevanger wrote: Hi, The Leap Seconds article linked here: https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html using the URL https://www.freebsd.org/articles/leap-seconds/index.html gets nowhere. The URL https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds/

Re: hi, about doing some changes to polish docs translation for FreeBSD

On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Wlodzimierz Kraterski wrote: hi, I'm trying to reach b...@therek.net who's email is listed as resposible for polish docs translation but all emails bounce back Can u help? r. wlodek Some of our translation teams have become inactive. The existing manual translation method

Re: Ukrainian documentation translation

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Taras Korenko wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 02:50:09PM +, Andrej Solonenko via freebsd-doc wrote: Hi, I'm going to start translating the documentation into Ukrainian and I will appreciate any advice regarding the first steps. You might start reading FDP Primer: ht

Re: Mistake in Chapter 13.2. Editor Configuration - Emacs

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Noam Postavsky wrote: As seen on https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config-emacs.html; 2015, July 11th. The config should look like this: (defun local-sgml-mode-hook () (setq fill-column 70 indent-tabs-mode nil next-line-add

Re: What is the proper indent style for FDP?

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote: Hello. I'm curious about indentation style. Which is the proper one when dealing with FDP xml files? The original FDP files follow the style like this: We have tried to keep the number of forward references in the text to a minimum so that yo

Re: What is the proper indent style for FDP?

On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote: Hello. I'm curious about indentation style. Which is the proper one when dealing with FDP xml files? The original FDP files follow the style like this: We have tried to keep the number of fo

Re: How can I contact doceng@?

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote: Hello :) I'm trying to launch FreeBSD Korean Documentation Project. I sent a mail to doc...@freebsd.org, after carefully read following instruction: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/translations.html#idp60865872 However, I cou

Re: Suggestions for porter's handbook on bsd licenced dependency options

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, sid -- wrote: I'd like to suggest to put in the porter's handbook, bsd licenced alternatives to commonly ported gnu-based dependencies. For instance, to suggest the [radio] option of "OPENSSL" when the program calls on "GNUTLS". It would be great to optionally also have l

Testers needed: PO translation

A new PO translation system is in place and ready for basic testing. Please see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-translators/2015-August/26.html ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-d

PO Translations

Pardon for the BCC. I'm sending this because you are all people who expressed an interest in helping to translate FreeBSD documentation, either on the freebsd-doc mailing list or privately. We are now asking for testers for our new PO translation system. Please see https://lists.freebsd.org

Re: freebsd documentation help

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Lukas Splavec wrote: Hi, I would like to help with the documentation of the FreeBSD project. I have noticed there is currently not a Czech translations being done. Is it considered to be relevant? Yes, at present we do not have a Czech translation, but we would like to ha

Re: freebsd documentation help

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Lukas Splavec wrote: Thanks a lot! I would really appreciate any help possible. At the moment I am trying to make translation software to work and then we can go through it together. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Hoyoung Kim wrote: I recently started Korean translation

Re: freebsd documentation help

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Lukas Splavec wrote: [please do not top-post, it makes responding more difficult] I have joined the freebsd-translators list but got no confirmation yet. Thank you. After I followed the instructions in the documentation I encountered some problems. The documentation is

Re: freebsd documentation help

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Lukas Splavec wrote: I have joined the freebsd-translators list but got no confirmation yet. After I followed the instructions in the documentation I encountered some problems. The documentation is pointing to  http://wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/translation/overview-quick-start.

Re: freebsd documentation help

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Lukas Splavec wrote: Thanks a lot! I would really appreciate any help possible. At the moment I am trying to make translation software to work and then we can go through it together. A list of free on line translator engines in case it helps anyone:

Re: bad url in document

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Chris Mathews wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html has a reference to a bad link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Searching for "Full instructions on this procedure and a little bit more about insta

Re: Making changes to files from the handbook.

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jeremy Gransden writes: Since the handbook, FAQ, and other docs come in a variety of formats; what files are the correct ones to create a pr and diff from when changes are made? The formats you see are all outputs. Like for programming, you want to

Modifying the main web page CSS (D3215)

The main web page (https://www.freebsd.org/) is terrible on a wide monitor. Most monitors, really. The CSS throws away a lot of space and uses tiny crimped fonts. Except for fonts, which are ridiculously overstated. Quite some time back, this irritated me enough to stomp through the CSS, wi

Re: Handbook - Typo in Pre-Installation

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-09-05 20:11, Ali Ghahraei wrote: Good afternoon. I just wanted to inform you about an error in the handbook (or at least I think it is one). In "Pre-Installation Tasks" there is a command for burning disk images, but it currently is: # dd if=*Free

Re: Modifying the main web page CSS (D3215)

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Allan Jude wrote: So I created this review of my modifications: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3215 Previews of how the main page looks on 1920x1200 and 1024x768 monitors are here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/wide-1920.png http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/wide-1024.

Re: Modifying the main web page CSS (D3215)

On Sun, 6 Sep 2015, Fabian Keil wrote: Warren Block wrote: The main web page (https://www.freebsd.org/) is terrible on a wide monitor. Most monitors, really. The CSS throws away a lot of space and uses tiny crimped fonts. Except for fonts, which are ridiculously overstated. Also

Re: Broken Links in fdp-primer 2.2.1.

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Hoyoung Kim wrote: Hello. It seems that there are two broken links in section 2.2.1. of fdp-primer: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools-optional.html print/jadetex and print/teTeX lead to 'An Exception Has Occurred'. I think these are outdated

Re: Modifying the main web page CSS (D3215)

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2015, Fabian Keil wrote: Warren Block wrote: The main web page (https://www.freebsd.org/) is terrible on a wide monitor. Most monitors, really. The CSS throws away a lot of space and uses tiny crimped fonts. Except for fonts, which

Re: FreeBSD handbook remark

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Martin Dirichs wrote: Hello, just a small notice about the FreeBSD handbook, chapter 22.2 (localization): I was misled by the sentence If all new users use the same language, set defaultclass = language in /etc/adduser.conf. In fact, this does not work with those spaces a

Re: [Patch] Spanish translation of the NanoBSD article.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Federico Caminiti wrote: Hi, ever since the new translations system emerged, I've gotten arround to translating the NanoBSD article, in the hopes that someone can review and commit it. Since this is only a .po file, all anyone should worry about are the translation strings.

Re: Doc build fails?

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Russell Haley wrote: Hi there, Can't seem to get the website to build. Output is at pastebin bellow: http://pastebin.com/DPCEz9s3 It worked here just now, but a similar problem was reported yesterday. Do you have the latest checkout of the doc tree? Have any edits been

Re: Misslinked

Committed in 47745. Thanks! On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday, August 21, 2015 12:17:38 AM Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote: Hi Bytes Masters! Just a humble mac user starting to learn the –wonderful– FreeBSD Handbook. I found a misdirected link. The "current release

Re: Handbook wrong code mistake

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Ömer Gülmen wrote: Hi dude 2.3.1.1. Writing an Image File to USB you wrote as:# dd if=FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync But it has to be on linux "bs=1M" not "bs=1m". Change it

Re: forums.freebsd.org connection reset, questions email bounced

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Dwight Walker wrote: Hi 1) forums.freebsd.org pages reset with 301 permanently moved - I am using Firefox 16 on Linux and lynx on FreeBSD 6.2 Recent versions of Firefox are needed to support the HTTPS that is used by default. First, I would strongly suggest upgrading

Re: How to submit translated document

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Dongseob Park wrote: Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and now I'm working as an software engineer in Korea Although I'm not good at FreeBSD but I think I can translate some of documents like Developer's Handbook. Excellent! I already read some document and 'who we are' and 'S

Re: Catching up with SVN

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote: Hi, I'm currently making a spanish translation of the FAQ. Since it's a rather large document its taking a lot of time, though I hope to have it completed soon-ish (more or less next week if I maintain my current pace). The problem is that, in the

Re: Catching up with SVN

itate to ask questions when anything is not clear. It helps improve the code and the documentation. Thanks! 2016-01-22 3:09 GMT-03:00 Warren Block : On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote: Hi, I'm currently making a spanish translation of the FAQ. Si

Re: Spanish Translation of the FAQ

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote: I've finally gotten arround to create a spanish translation of the FAQ. Thank you! This message should probably be posted to the freebsd-translators list, though. Other translators have probably experienced the same problems. Or will. I thin

Re: Quick question about handbook template

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Paweł Wierzbicki wrote: Hello! I just wanted to ask, if the "FreeDSD Handbook" is generated using some sort of a template or is it written by hand? The question is not quite clear. The Handbook and other FreeBSD documents are written by hand in DocBook XML, then output f

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Svyatoslav Razmyslov wrote: Hello! I'm an employee of "Program Verification Systems" company. We develop a static code analyzer PVS-Studio for C/C++/C# languages. To demonstrate the capabilities of our analyzer, we regularly perform analysis of open source projects. Re

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Svyatoslav Razmyslov wrote: The analysis report (filtered for most interesting messages) is attached, you can use it without any restrictions. To use the report, please append the beginning of the paths to files with the path to a directory containing kernel sources (repla

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Svyatoslav Razmyslov wrote: Hi, Warren. The analysis report (filtered for most interesting messages) is attached, you can use it without any restrictions. To use the report, please append the beginning of the paths to files with the path to a directory containing kernel

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Svyatoslav Razmyslov wrote: Hi, Warren. I used GitHub repository: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd git branch: master For command: "git rev-list HEAD --count", verified revision is 217717. Sorry, is that a Subversion revision number? 217717 in our Subversion reposito

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

ed an article , describing the most suspicious fragments. http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0377/ Thanks! 10.02.2016 19:55, Warren Block пишет: On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Svyatoslav Razmyslov wrote: The analysis report (filtered for most interesting messages) is attached, you can use it withou

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-doc wrote: Hi Svyatoslav, Seems like an interesting report! Wonder if all those findings will be submitted in the form of bug reports or email to individual developers working on the particular project that the bug is addressed. Developers ha

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Svyatoslav Razmyslov wrote: I have sent the file in CSV format (PVS-Studio-log-freebsd.csv). Does it work for you? 18.02.2016 11:24, Russell Haley пишет: Svyatoslav, Is there an output format for the issue report that could be massaged in python or lua or the like and s

Re: Checking FreeBSD kernel with static analyzer

On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Russell Haley wrote: Thanks warren, send me the csv when you get a chance. I'd really appreciate it. You implied in previous emails that there is a larger discussion going on about reviewing the data. Is there a public chat anywhere? I see this as an excellent learning tool

Re: 5.4.6. Monitors : xrandr output missing dash "-" in one section

On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, sid -- wrote: ... Sorry, there are a couple examples of xrandr usage in that section, and both look correct. Can you be more specific about which is wrong, and the corrected usage? A URL or full path to the document or file in question would also help to make sure we ar

Re: Dead link in handbook

On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Fedde Schaeffer wrote: Good day, On https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html , in a note under ‘4.5.3.1. Upgrading Ports Using Portmaster’, I found a link to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmaster&sektion=8 , at which no manpa

Re: FreeBSD Handbook suggestion 5.6. The X Display Manager. appologizes, text from email didn't pass

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, sid -- wrote: ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" The mailing list often strips attachments, espe

Re: Updating Porter's Handbook title page (books.xml)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Michael Gmelin wrote: Hi, I just noticed, that the porter's handbook title page still shows copyright 2014 and a commit from 2014: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/ "Revision: 45423 Copyright © 2000-2014 The FreeBSD Documentation Project Copyright Leg

Re: Updating Porter's Handbook title page (books.xml)

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Michael Gmelin wrote: On 02 Mar 2016, at 20:32, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Michael Gmelin wrote: Hi, I just noticed, that the porter's handbook title page still shows copyright 2014 and a commit from 2014: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/po

Re: Bad link in google?

On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, Russell Haley wrote: I googled setting up a VirtualBox vm and the handbook link failed. My google search: https://www.google.ca/search?q=freebsd+setting+up+a+virtualbox+virtual+machine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=Gk7uVv2aBMGkjwOC-LuoDQ The handbook link provided was: h

Re: Small suggestion/question about The Handbook (Sec 2.3.1)

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I only look at the docs (e.g. the Handbook) infrequently, e.g. when I need to refresh my memory about what image(s) I should be downloading for a new build. Doing that, just the other day, and then looking at the sets of images actually available

Re: Small suggestion/question about The Handbook (Sec 2.3.1)

On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block wrote: The short version: Normal images are used to install FreeBSD on a BIOS computer or a computer with UEFI "CSM" enabled. Installing in UEFI mode requires a uefi image. That's not hard to in

Re: Suggestion for improving "17.2. Adding Disks"

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Bernard T. Higonnet wrote: Hello, I would like to suggest adding to this section the output of gpart show showing how gpart displays what has been done after # gpart create -s GPT ada1 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 1M ada1 It would certainly help someone like me! Adde

"Filesystem" versus "file system"

The FDP Primer word list shows only "file system", but does not give any context for the usage of that term. This is a mistake, and it's time to fix it. We can fix it with a compound word, by combining two words into a single word with a more specific meaning. As an example, consider the wo

Re: ezjail allow.raw_socket handbook wrong confing

On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Pietro Sammarco via freebsd-doc wrote: Hello, I have been hammering my head for the past 3 hours trying to get ping to work on a jail managed through ezjail. As per the handbook indication, I set *export jail_jailname_parameters="allow.raw_sockets=1" *to*/usr/local/etc

Re: ezjail allow.raw_socket handbook wrong confing

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:37:28PM +0200, Philipp Erbelding wrote: Hello Philipp! Hi, I think there is a misunderstanding about the issue here. "jailname" in both the paragraph and the configuration line are shown in italic because they are st

Re: Where did we lurn to spel?

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hello; I just updated locally the textproc/codespell to the latest version (bugzilla 209128 for the curious), and it finds a *crazy* amount of issues in code comments. I can't handle it on my own, indeed I got tired just be checking sys/arm ! Anyways,

Re: Where did we lurn to spel?

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hello; I just updated locally the textproc/codespell to the latest version (bugzilla 209128 for the curious), and it finds a *crazy* amount of issues in code comments. I can't handle it on my own, ind

Re: Where did we lurn to spel?

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Pedro Giffuni wrote: On 04/28/16 16:36, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hello; I just updated locally the textproc/codespell to the latest version (bugzilla 209128 for the curious), and it finds a

Re: Idea about the handbook

On Sun, 22 May 2016, Jason Gorman wrote: Hey, i've recently become interested in FreeBSD and of course stumbled across the handbook. Have to say it's brilliant! One thing however I found slightly annoying is that i've been reading the handbook in my spare time, and chances are whilst reading it

Re: request

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Mohammad Eslami wrote: hi. good evening. i did your instructions for install gnome3 on freebsd on my virtual box. but when reboot my machine it doesn't boot gnome. what shall i do? The freebsd-gnome mailing list at http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome i

Re: Video: On-the-fly validation and proofreading of FreeBSD docs

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Joseph Mingrone wrote: Hi, The flavour of how this works may be easier to describe with a video. https://youtu.be/rYQv4OvoscY Because OP is too humble to brag this up, allow me: He took the output of textproc/igor and integrated it into emacs. Then he went further and

Re: Handbook typos

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Gilles Kirouac wrote: Dear writer About the FreeBSD Handbook Revision: 48895 Here is a quotation of paragr 17.4.1 p 308 = user as /mnt/username . In the following example, replace username with the login name of the user and usergroup with the user's primary

Web reminder: CVS for ports

In one week, CVS for ports will be shut down. There should be a reminder on the main web page. I've semi-seriously joked with some that there should be a floating Javascript countdown timer. Even a manual update that shows the number of days left would be useful, something to convey the sens

Re: Do we care for manpage links in elements?

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2013-02-26 09:45, Tom Rhodes wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:44:15 +0100 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2013-02-26 13:49, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi everyone, I just noticed that in all the places where a chapter includes a &an.xxx.section; en

Re: [CFR] Migrating the documentation to a real XML toolchain

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: I have some improvements for the doc infrastructures in the xml-tools branch. I think that the changeset is now getting mature enough to be merged back so I'd like to ask for review. It does not affect the web pages, only books and articles. The rende

Re: Would enough people like a tutorial in freebsd developer handbook

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Anthony Brown wrote: Would enough people like a tutorial in freebsd developer handbook on freebsd 64 bit assembly language using the c standard library. Interesting. But maybe a tutorial would be better as a separate article.

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