Author: thomas
Date: 2008-08-20 13:04:29 -0600 (Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
New Revision: 7565
Modified:
trunk/edguide/chapter07.xml
trunk/edguide/general.ent
Log:
Add section about bootscripts
Modified: trunk/edguide/chapter07.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/edguide/chapter07.xml 2008-08-17 16:30:40 UTC (rev 7564)
+++ trunk/edguide/chapter07.xml 2008-08-20 19:04:29 UTC (rev 7565)
@@ -73,6 +73,33 @@
<para>To be developed.</para>
+ <section id="ch07-bootscripts">
+ <title>Editing/Adding Bootscripts</title>
+
+ <para>When you make an update to the bootscripts there are three
+ things that need to be done:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem><para>The actual update to the bootscripts. Edit the scripts
+ to enhance their functionality or fix bugs or even create new
bootscripts
+ in case there are new packages the bootscripts belong
to.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Update the ChangeLog file in the bootscripts. Note that
+ there is a separate changelog for the bootscripts. The actual book
+ changelog doesn't need an update.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Update the "blfs-bootscripts-version" entity in the
+ book's general.ent file.</para></listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <note><para>If you fail to do #3, then the automated process which
+ creates a new version of the bootscripts tarball won't do its job, so #3
+ is an important step in the process.</para></note>
+
+ </section>
+
</section>
<!-- commenting this out for now as we don't update Anduin
Modified: trunk/edguide/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/edguide/general.ent 2008-08-17 16:30:40 UTC (rev 7564)
+++ trunk/edguide/general.ent 2008-08-20 19:04:29 UTC (rev 7565)
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ -->
<!-- $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY version "20070403">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "April 3rd, 2007">
+<!ENTITY version "20080820">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 20th, 2008">
<!ENTITY date "$Date$">
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