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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [patch] remove section 12.19 from porters handbook
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>Number:         152177
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] remove section 12.19 from porters handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bcr
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 12 20:40:08 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:    Fri Nov 12 21:24:10 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Nov 12 21:24:10 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Eitan Adler
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
4.8 and 5.0 are now EOL and not really supported by ports so the workarounds are not "Necessary"
>How-To-Repeat:
1. plug in computer
2. sit in comfortable chair
3. turn on computer (can be reversed with #2)
4. Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/dads-workarounds.html
>Fix:
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.1078
diff -u -u -r1.1078 book.sgml
--- book.sgml	3 Nov 2010 21:54:27 -0000	1.1078
+++ book.sgml	12 Nov 2010 20:20:01 -0000
@@ -14281,30 +14281,6 @@
 	  and confirm the changes with them.</para>
       </sect1>
 
-      <sect1 id="dads-workarounds">
-	<title>Necessary workarounds</title>
-
-	<para>Sometimes it is necessary to work around bugs in
-	  software included with older versions of &os;.</para>
-
-	<itemizedlist>
-	  <listitem>
-	    <para>Some versions of &man.make.1; were broken
-	      on at least 4.8 and 5.0 with respect to handling
-	      comparisons based on <makevar>OSVERSION</makevar>.
-	      This would often lead to failures during
-	      <command>make describe</command> (and thus, the overall
-	      ports <command>make index</command>).  The workaround is
-	      to enclose the conditional comparison in spaces, e.g.:
-	      <programlisting>if ( ${OSVERSION} &gt; 500023 )</programlisting>
-	      Be aware that test-installing a port on 4.9 or 5.2
-	      will <emphasis>not</emphasis> detect this problem.</para>
-	  </listitem>
-
-	</itemizedlist>
-
-      </sect1>
-
       <sect1 id="dads-misc">
 	<title>Miscellanea</title>
 


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->bcr 
Responsible-Changed-By: bcr 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Nov 12 20:43:51 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
5. Grab cool PR before anyone else.  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152177 

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Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/152177: commit references a PR
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:11:45 +0000 (UTC)

 bcr         2010-11-12 21:11:23 UTC
 
   FreeBSD doc repository
 
   Modified files:
     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml 
   Log:
   Remove a workaround section dealing with FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.0, which have
   reached their respective EOLs years ago.
   
   PR:             docs/152177
   Submitted by:   Eitan Adler (lists at eitanadler dot com)
   
   Revision  Changes    Path
   1.1079    +0 -24     doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: bcr 
State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 12 21:20:36 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
6. Check PR and commit the attached patch  
7. Thank originator (Thanks Eitan) and close PR. ;-) 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152177 
>Unformatted:
