Bug 159220
| Summary: | [patch] Strange sentence in /usr/src/UPDATING | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Alexander Best <arundel> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Glen Barber <gjb> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
Alexander Best
2011-07-27 00:50:04 UTC
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Alexander Best wrote:
> The last sentence seems quite broken. At least I haven't got a clue what it's supposed to mean.
"If you need to see entries from the UPDATING file which are older than
2004/10/16, go get the UPDATING file from a previous &os; release, and it
will have a better chance of including what you're looking for."
-Ben Kaduk
On Tue Jul 26 11, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > "If you need to see entries from the UPDATING file which are older than > 2004/10/16, go get the UPDATING file from a previous &os; release, and it > will have a better chance of including what you're looking for." thanks. can we get this committed, please? > > -Ben Kaduk Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->imp Warner, any interest in adjusting the sentence with a variant of the proposed change? On Tue Jul 26 11, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > will have a better chance of including what you're looking for." could we please please please get this fixed before 9.0? > > -Ben Kaduk On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Alexander Best wrote:
> could we please please please get this fixed before 9.0?
I seem to recall there was discussion of this on IRC around the time it
was sent in, though I don't have records of it handy.
Anyway, here, have a more suitable wording in the form of a patch.
-Ben Kaduk
Responsible Changed From-To: imp->gjb Over to me. Author: gjb (doc committer) Date: Wed Aug 24 12:18:29 2011 New Revision: 225142 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225142 Log: Reword sentence noting UPDATING entries prior to October 2007 are only available in older FreeBSD releases. PR: 159220 Submitted by: arundel Patch by: Benjamin Kaduk (kaduk % mit ! edu) OK'd by: imp (via -doc@) MFC after: 1 week Approved by: re (kib) Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Wed Aug 24 09:54:21 2011 (r225141) +++ head/UPDATING Wed Aug 24 12:18:29 2011 (r225142) @@ -1456,9 +1456,10 @@ COMMON ITEMS: FORMAT: This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major -breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, -and it only starts on October 16, 2004. Updating files can found in -previous releases if your system is older than this. +breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete +list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007. +If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need +to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. Copyright information: _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" State Changed From-To: open->patched Patched in HEAD (r225142). MFC in 1 week. Author: gjb (doc committer) Date: Wed Aug 31 01:17:49 2011 New Revision: 225275 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225275 Log: MFC 225142: Reword sentence noting UPDATING entries prior to October 2007[1] are only available in older FreeBSD releases. PR: 159220 [1] - October 2007 is specific to HEAD. In stable/8 and stable/7, the correct year is 2004, so that change is reflected here as well. Modified: stable/8/UPDATING (contents, props changed) Modified: stable/8/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- stable/8/UPDATING Tue Aug 30 23:55:45 2011 (r225274) +++ stable/8/UPDATING Wed Aug 31 01:17:49 2011 (r225275) @@ -1768,9 +1768,10 @@ COMMON ITEMS: FORMAT: This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major -breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, -and it only starts on October 16, 2004. Updating files can found in -previous releases if your system is older than this. +breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete +list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 16, 2004. +If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need +to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. Copyright information: _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Author: gjb (doc committer) Date: Wed Aug 31 01:18:23 2011 New Revision: 225276 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225276 Log: MFC 225142: Reword sentence noting UPDATING entries prior to October 2007[1] are only available in older FreeBSD releases. PR: 159220 [1] - October 2007 is specific to HEAD. In stable/8 and stable/7, the correct year is 2004, so that change is reflected here as well. Modified: stable/7/UPDATING (contents, props changed) Modified: stable/7/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- stable/7/UPDATING Wed Aug 31 01:17:49 2011 (r225275) +++ stable/7/UPDATING Wed Aug 31 01:18:23 2011 (r225276) @@ -1095,9 +1095,10 @@ COMMON ITEMS: FORMAT: This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major -breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, -and it only starts on October 16, 2004. Updating files can found in -previous releases if your system is older than this. +breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete +list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 16, 2004. +If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need +to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. Copyright information: _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" State Changed From-To: patched->closed MFC'd to 8-STABLE and 7-STABLE. |