On 6/30/07, chinsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/1/07, Ben Kaduk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I was pretty sure that the ``visual kernel configuartion'' was an
> antique, but I didn't have access to a &os; box when I was looking at
> it.
You can use the CVSweb service to browser any tree and code:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
Thanks for the tip -- I've been using this to grab copies of various
chapter.sgml files when sending diffs to -doc@ for a while, now.
In this particular case, the easiest way to check seemed to be to
actually boot up a system, and run /usr/sbin/sysinstall and see if
anything shows up -- there are so many ways that a visual kernel
configuration could hide in the source that I would be wasting my time
(maybe someone else knows more tricks).
[sip cvsweb links]
> By the way, I also noticed that (at least in one chapter) we mix
> together using a literal ``FreeBSD'' and ``&os;''; the example I
> counted was approx 150 FreeBSD and 50 &os; -- is there a reason to
> prefer one to the other? The comment in freebsd.ent points out that
> they are very unlikely to be different, but would we really only want
> to turn some instances into links?
> It's probably not worth the repo-churn to make them consistent, I'm
> just curious.
Fine. :)
IMHO, I think all of they should be consolidated in the Entities(ie: &os;).
"Entities are a mechanism for assigning names to chunks of content. As
an SGML parser processes your document, any entities it finds are
replaced by the content of the entity.
This is a good way to have re-usable, easily changeable chunks of
content in your SGML documents. It is also the only way to include one
marked up file inside another using SGML."
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer-entities.html
<quote from the bottom of
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/share/sgml/freebsd.ent>
Revision 1.1: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs
Fri Jun 8 01:12:28 2001 UTC (6 years ago) by dd
Branches: MAIN
Introduce &os;, &os.current;, and &os.stable; entities. The names
should speak for themselves. Using these will significantly improve
consistency through the doc tree. Right now--before most of the
documents use these--there are five or six different spellings of
"FreeBSD-STABLE", even in the same document! &os; was added for
completeness.
Approved by: -doc
</quote>
It always pays to check the cvs logs. . .I'll try and use the entities
in the future if I need to.
Thanks again,
Ben Kaduk
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