Author: jhuntwork
Date: 2006-05-25 08:01:00 -0600 (Thu, 25 May 2006)
New Revision: 7627
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/diffutils.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/shadow.xml
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
Log:
Fixed generation of diff's man page, fixes #1800.
Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix.
Also, some slight wording adjustments on the Shadow page.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2006-05-25 13:56:13 UTC (rev 7626)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2006-05-25 14:01:00 UTC (rev 7627)
@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>May 25, 2006</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed generation of diff's man page.
+ Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix.
+ Fixes #1800.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>May 22, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/diffutils.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/diffutils.xml 2006-05-25 13:56:13 UTC (rev 7626)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/diffutils.xml 2006-05-25 14:01:00 UTC (rev 7627)
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
+ <para>The above patch will cause the Diffutils build system to attempt to
+ rebuild the <filename>diff.1</filename> man page using the unavailable
+ program <command>help2man</command>. The result is an unreadable man page
for
+ <command>diff</command>. We can avoid this by updating the timestamp on
+ the file <filename>man/diff.1</filename>:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>touch man/diff.1</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/shadow.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/shadow.xml 2006-05-25 13:56:13 UTC (rev 7626)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/shadow.xml 2006-05-25 14:01:00 UTC (rev 7627)
@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@
etc/login.defs > /etc/login.defs</userinput></screen>
<note>
- <para>If you built Shadow with Cracklib support, insert the following
into
- the <command>sed</command> given below:</para>
+ <para>If you built Shadow with Cracklib support, run the following:</para>
<screen><literal>sed -i '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@DICTPATH\t/lib/cracklib/pw_dict@'
/etc/login.defs</literal></screen>
</note>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2006-05-25 13:56:13 UTC (rev 7626)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2006-05-25 14:01:00 UTC (rev 7627)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060522">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "May 22, 2006">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060525">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "May 25, 2006">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or
"x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
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