this as an article for a German-language newsgroup, and people felt
there's a lot of misconception about the topic around, so they urged
me to publish it. Eventually, Matthias Schuendehuette submitted an
English translation of the article to me and asked me to review it.
Finally, Kirk graciously reviewed it, too.
Submitted by: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>
Reviewed by: joerg, kirk
MFC after: 3 days
to ports as in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
As pointed out by Nik and others, the <port> tag is not the best way
to mark up Ports Collection ports. However, for the present it is
the best we have, and the least we can do is be consistent in its
usage :)
Approved as a temp "best current practice" measure by: bmah, -doc
- Correct a factual error in the "Transactions" section (which I
wrote mostly off the top of my head)
- Add a note about discrepancies in the original PAM paper to the (as
yet unwritten) "PAM Application Programming" section.
- Fill in the sample PAM application, and make room for an (as yet
unwritten) sample PAM module.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
distfiles survey as resources for port maintainers. A modified
version of the patch submitted with the PR.
PR: 33772
Submitted by: Vladimir Tchoukharev <chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi>
moved from elsewhere.
-security seems to have a high number of Qs that are FA'd. I'll be
documenting them here (although other people are certainly welcome to
pitch in!).
More existing questions could arguably be moved here, and probably
will be in the near future. Security information is scattered badly
through the FAQ. I'm being gentle to avoid tripping on other people's
toes.
Previously, the "Miscellaneous" chapter contained serious questions
mixed in with "How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a light
bulb?" and so on. This stuff is valuable to the community, but
doesn't belong mixed in with more serious answers.
discussed on: -doc
to fix a bug that would cause footnote numbering to be messed up if
using %footnote-ulinks% and we had any empty <ulink></ulink> elements
in a document. (This happens a lot in the release documentation.)
This change has been submitted to the DocBook bug database on
SourceForge as bug #502066. When it gets included into the
DocBook DSSSL distribution and the corrected version gets incorporated
into the FreeBSD Ports Collection, I'll back out the change in our
(FreeBSD's) stylesheet.
