The claim that there were no "substantive" commits to this
article are made without any knowledge of internals of re@.
Several parts of the removed content is still relevant for
8.x, which we do still support.
Furthermore, this particular article, outdated or not, falls
under RE territory, and these drive-by commits were not
approved.
Approved by: re (implicit)
- since my previous cleanup passes removed some contents, it is now
possible to remove even more contents!
- remove some footnotes that refer to the same article the text they
footnote link to.
There is a two year old warning that this document is partly outdated
and that re@ is working on updating it.
I don't see many substantive commits updating this doc, so just do a
drive-by and remove the obviously wrong and outdated things.
the article can use some additional work from someone more clueful about
the current re@ process.
- remove sysinstall references
There is a two year old warning that this document is partly outdated
and that re@ is working on updating it.
I don't see many substantive commits updating this doc, so just do a
drive-by and remove the obviously wrong and outdated things.
- sysinstall has been replaced (and so scripting it is meaningless)
- cross building is possible
- drop support for disk2 and on
- remove empty sections, such as the one on cd-rom replication
- combine the 'how to contribute' doc and the 'contributing to ports' doc.
- modernize the 'contributing to ports' doc
- use &os;
- prefer poudriere to tinderbox
Reviewed by: crees, bapt, mat
No objections from: bdrewery, gavin, wblock
- remove article about releng packages
- we no longer produce multi-cd releases
- CVS is not our VCS system
- we havn't releaseed with xfree86 is years
- section 1 about the 'ports cluster' is now entirely untrue and
been disclaimed by portmgr
Discussed with: peter, bdrewery, Daniel O'Connor
- references mostly outdated hardware
- doesn't use modern technologies (IPMI, nmdm, bhyve)
- the SUN hardware peculiarities are not useful anymore
- there are other better references on crimping custom serial cables
- MAKEDEV is no a thing anymore
there might be room for a modern version of this article in the handbook
but there is little that is salvageable from this article.
Discussed with: bcr, xmj, sbruno, cem
ZFS chapter. Some ZFS terms were translated into german where appropriate,
but most of them (vdev, pool states and such) were left to make it easier
to relate to the ZFS outputs of FreeBSD.
Obtained from: The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
- using a custom gcc should be done within poudriere
- there is a framework for choosing a ports compiler anyways
- this article is incomplete w.r.t. modern gcc verisons
- encouraging people to add global options like `mssse3` is dangerous
- the original reason to use a custom gcc is gone (our old gcc was
outdated)
- WITH_ and WITHOUT_ are outdated
- make.conf is the wrong place for modern systems (which should be using
poudriere)
- only reference package installation. Ports users can use the port name and
the normal ports documentation
