Documentation patches

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Dec 23 10:40:27 EST 2010


On 12/23/10 9:00 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 23 December 2010 11:42, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:25:47 +0000
>> Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> After giving up on getting the webui working on amnesiac.bayofrum.net
>>> (seems to be a weird apache issue) I've made a jail for it; webui now
>>> works in my jail for me!
>>>
>>> BUT.... tinderbuilds don't work in jails (fail on mtree)
>>>
>>> so I chrooted tinderd from the base system to the jail, and it works
>>> really well.
>>>
>>> I'd like to write that up as a section in the README (tinderbox in
>>> jail), but I'm not sure what to diff against; should I go against the
>>> README.html in the cvs or do you use Docbook sources like the FreeBSD
>>> Handbook?
>>
>> See HEAD of marcuscom CVS where tindy lives and send a diff agaist that.
>>
>> If you have time to work on docs, it will be greatly appreceiated by
>> many.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply. I'm a bit confused though; the tinderbox
> ASCII README seems out of sync compared with the HTML version; little
> things like the latest RELENG tags that make me think it's not well
> managed together.

The README in HEAD is the master doc.  From there, I port content (not
necessarily formatting) to README.html.  If you provide diffs to the
README, I'll see they are incorporated into README.html.

That said, if you wanted to automate this by converting the
documentation to SGML or XML that would be great!

Joe

> 
> If the ASCII version in
> (http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portstools/tinderbox/README)
> is the definitive version I could work from that, but if you're
> interested in something synchronised like the Handbook I could put
> something together?
> 
> Chris
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