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Re: many doc and handbook changes
Please carbon-copy me on replies.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Send things to submit@ - Whomever's available can jump on them, including
> me once I'm able to turn on more than two lights in my house at the same
> time.
17 patches below. (And I have more to do. By the way, I have a nice
formatted 7x9 book with headers, index, bottom-of-page footnotes that
looks almost ready to print. But at 828 pages it is too long. If
interested please discuss on docs@ list.)
1) glossary is not FreeBSD. Not verified yet.
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.1 Makefile
--- en/books/handbook/Makefile 25 Jun 2004 15:24:33 -0000 1.1
+++ en/books/handbook/Makefile 17 Jun 2005 19:07:37 -0000
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
SGMLFLAGS+= ${CHAPTERS:S/\/chapter.sgml//:S/^/-i chap./}
.if defined(WITH_GLOSSARY) && !empty(WITH_GLOSSARY)
-SGMLFLAGS+= -i chap.freebsd-glossary
+SGMLFLAGS+= -i chap.dragonfly-glossary
.endif
# XXX The Handbook build currently overflows some internal, hardcoded
2) glossary again and get rid of note about Hard copy versions :)
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.1 book.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/book.sgml 25 Jun 2004 15:24:33 -0000 1.1
+++ en/books/handbook/book.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:07:37 -0000
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
<!ENTITY % chap.eresources "IGNORE">
<!ENTITY % chap.pgpkeys "IGNORE">
<!ENTITY % chap.index "IGNORE">
-<!ENTITY % chap.freebsd-glossary "IGNORE">
+<!ENTITY % chap.dragonfly-glossary "IGNORE">
<!ENTITY % pgpkeys SYSTEM "../../../share/pgpkeys/pgpkeys.ent"> %pgpkeys;
]>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
this document is always available from the <ulink
url="http://www.dragonFlybsd.org/";>&os; web site</ulink>
or <link linkend="mirrors-ftp">mirror sites</link>,
- in a variety of formats. Hard copy versions are not yet available.
+ in a variety of formats.
</para>
<para>Portions of this document originally documented use of the <ulink
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
<![ %chap.eresources; [ &chap.eresources; ]]>
<![ %chap.pgpkeys; [ &chap.pgpkeys; ]]>
</part>
- <![ %chap.freebsd-glossary; [ &bookinfo.freebsd-glossary; ]]>
+ <![ %chap.dragonfly-glossary; [ &bookinfo.dragonfly-glossary; ]]>
<![ %chap.index; [ &chap.index; ]]>
&chap.colophon;
3) Not FreeBSD. Yes, I know this is getting father from FreeBSD's versions
but there is not going back.
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.1 chapters.ent
--- en/books/handbook/chapters.ent 25 Jun 2004 15:24:33 -0000 1.1
+++ en/books/handbook/chapters.ent 17 Jun 2005 19:07:37 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
- Creates entities for each chapter in the FreeBSD Handbook. Each entity
+ Creates entities for each chapter in the Handbook. Each entity
is named chap.foo, where foo is the value of the id attribute on that
chapter, and corresponds to the name of the directory in which that
chapter's .sgml file is stored.
4) Add pkgsrc and sort alphabetically.
Index: en/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.3 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml 7 Oct 2004 20:03:22 -0000 1.3
+++ en/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:07:44 -0000
@@ -727,6 +727,11 @@
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><filename class="directory">/usr/dfports</filename></entry>
+ <entry>The &os; ports collection (optional).</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
<entry><filename class="directory">/usr/include/</filename></entry>
<entry>Standard C include files.</entry>
</row>
@@ -772,13 +777,23 @@
</row>
<row>
- <entry><filename class="directory">/usr/ports</filename></entry>
- <entry>The FreeBSD ports collection (optional).</entry>
+ <entry><filename class="directory">/usr/pkg</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Used as
+ the default destination for the files installed via the
+ &pkgsrc; framework or &pkgsrc; packages. The configuration
+ directory is tunable, but the default location is
+ <filename>/usr/pkg/etc</filename>.
+ </entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><filename class="directory">/usr/dfports</filename></entry>
- <entry>The &os; ports collection (optional).</entry>
+ <entry><filename class="directory">/usr/pkgsrc</filename></entry>
+ <entry>The &pkgsrc; collection for installing packages (optional).</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename class="directory">/usr/ports</filename></entry>
+ <entry>The FreeBSD ports collection (optional).</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -1922,7 +1937,7 @@
variables. &os; comes with a set of shells, such as
<command>sh</command>, the Bourne Shell, and <command>tcsh</command>,
the improved C-shell. Many other shells are available
- from the FreeBSD Ports Collection, such as
+ from &pkgsrc; and the FreeBSD Ports collections, such as
<command>zsh</command> and <command>bash</command>.</para>
<para>Which shell do you use? It is really a matter of taste. If you
@@ -2166,7 +2181,7 @@
<para>&os; also comes with more powerful text editors such as
<command>vi</command> as part of the base system, while other editors, like
<command>emacs</command> and <command>vim</command>,
- are part of the FreeBSD Ports Collection. These editors offer much
+ are part of the &pkgsrc; and FreeBSD Ports collections. These editors offer much
more functionality and power at the expense of being a little more
complicated to learn. However if you plan on doing a lot of text
editing, learning a more powerful editor such as
5) Not FreeBSD. And check boot loader menu option F2.
Index: en/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml 2 Aug 2004 18:47:42 -0000 1.2
+++ en/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:07:46 -0000
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
<para>If you have installed multiple operating systems on your disks then
you can install a different MBR, one that can display a list of
different operating systems, and allows you to choose the one to boot
- from. FreeBSD comes with one such MBR which can be installed, and other
+ from. &os; comes with one such MBR which can be installed, and other
operating system vendors also provide alternative MBRs.</para>
<para>The remainder of the &os; bootstrap system is divided into three
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@
<example id="boot-boot0-example">
<title><filename>boot0</filename> Screenshot</title>
+ <!-- todo: reed: what should be here? -->
<screen>F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
F3 Linux
6) Fix link to mirror sites.
Index: en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml 2 Aug 2004 18:47:43 -0000 1.2
+++ en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:07:46 -0000
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
<para><userinput>hostname</userinput> should be the closest mirror to you. A
list of mirrors sites can be found on the
- <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-CENTRAL-CVSUP";>FreeBSD website</ulink>.</para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/download.cgi";>&os; website</ulink>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="updating-before-building">
7) Add "FreeBSD" for index entry. Remove two index entries that aren't even
covered in this chapter.
Index: en/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.5 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml 31 Dec 2004 03:47:05 -0000 1.5
+++ en/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:07:48 -0000
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@
<para>&os; is based on the 4.4BSD-Lite release from Computer
Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at
Berkeley, along with later development of FreeBSD by the FreeBSD
+
+ <indexterm><primary>FreeBSD</primary></indexterm>
+
Project. It carries on the distinguished tradition of BSD
systems development. In addition to the fine work provided by
CSRG, the &os; Project has put in many thousands of hours in
@@ -401,8 +404,6 @@
code base was taken from the 4.8 release of FreeBSD, which offered
better performance and more complete features. </para>
- <indexterm><primary>Greenman, David</primary></indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary>Walnut Creek CDROM</primary></indexterm>
<para>Development has proceeded at a very quick rate since then, with
Matt Dillon and a small group of developers fixing longstanding
BSD bugs and modernizing the new &os; system.</para>
8) This is DragonFly. This chapter needs to be reviewed and many parts probably removed as it has many FreeBSD references still. And add a footnote.
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.3 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml 2 Aug 2004 18:47:44 -0000 1.3
+++ en/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:07:57 -0000
@@ -190,10 +190,10 @@
and the runtime linker. Also, you will need to create a
<quote>shadow root</quote> directory,
<filename>/compat/linux</filename>, for Linux libraries on your
- FreeBSD system. Any shared libraries opened by Linux programs
- run under FreeBSD will look in this tree first. So, if a Linux
+ &os; system. Any shared libraries opened by Linux programs
+ run under &os; will look in this tree first. So, if a Linux
program loads, for example, <filename>/lib/libc.so</filename>,
- FreeBSD will first try to open
+ &os; will first try to open
<filename>/compat/linux/lib/libc.so</filename>, and if that does
not exist, it will then try <filename>/lib/libc.so</filename>.
Shared libraries should be installed in the shadow tree
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
<para>The Linux version of <application>&mathematica;</application>
runs perfectly under &os;
however the binaries shipped by Wolfram need to be branded so that
- FreeBSD knows to use the Linux ABI to execute them.</para>
+ &os; knows to use the Linux ABI to execute them.</para>
<para>The Linux version of <application>&mathematica;</application>
or <application>&mathematica; for Students</application> can
@@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@
<application>&sap.r3; System</application>
with <application>&oracle; Database</application>
for Linux onto a &os; machine, including the installation
- of FreeBSD and <application>&oracle;</application>. Two different
+ of &os; and <application>&oracle;</application>. Two different
configurations will be described:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -1573,6 +1573,7 @@
<sect2 id="installation">
<title>Installation of FreeBSD</title>
+ <!-- reed: todo: this all needs to be removed or fixed for DragonFly -->
<para>First you have to install FreeBSD.</para>
@@ -1729,7 +1730,7 @@
relinking during <application>&oracle;</application> installation
will not work). There are some other issues regarding
relinking of <application>&oracle;</application>, but that is
- a <application>&oracle;</application> Linux issue, not FreeBSD specific.</para>
+ a <application>&oracle;</application> Linux issue, not &os; specific.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -3228,11 +3229,11 @@
<title>How Does It Work?</title>
<indexterm><primary>execution class loader</primary></indexterm>
- <para>FreeBSD has an abstraction called an <quote>execution class
+ <para>&os; has an abstraction called an <quote>execution class
loader</quote>. This is a wedge into the &man.execve.2; system
call.</para>
- <para>What happens is that FreeBSD has a list of loaders, instead of
+ <para>What happens is that &os; has a list of loaders, instead of
a single loader with a fallback to the <literal>#!</literal>
loader for running any shell interpreters or shell scripts.</para>
@@ -3253,14 +3254,15 @@
invoked the &man.csh.1; shell instead (we believe SCO first made
this hack).</para>
- <para>What FreeBSD does now is go through a list of loaders, with a
+ <para>What &os; does now is go through a list of loaders, with a
generic <literal>#!</literal> loader that knows about interpreters
as the characters which follow to the next whitespace next to
last, followed by a fallback to
<filename>/bin/sh</filename>.</para>
<indexterm><primary>ELF</primary></indexterm>
- <para>For the Linux ABI support, FreeBSD sees the magic number as an
+ <!-- reed: todo: is this FreeBSD okay? -->
+ <para>For the Linux ABI support, &os; sees the magic number as an
ELF binary (it makes no distinction between FreeBSD, &solaris;,
Linux, or any other OS which has an ELF image type, at this
point).</para>
@@ -3301,7 +3303,7 @@
<para>When a system call is called by the Linux binary, the trap
code dereferences the system call function pointer off the
<literal>proc</literal> structure, and gets the Linux, not the
- FreeBSD, system call entry points.</para>
+ &os;, system call entry points.</para>
<para>In addition, the Linux mode dynamically
<emphasis>reroots</emphasis> lookups; this is, in effect, what the
@@ -3315,19 +3317,19 @@
directory. This makes sure that binaries that require other
binaries can run (e.g., the Linux toolchain can all run under
Linux ABI support). It also means that the Linux binaries can
- load and execute FreeBSD binaries, if there are no corresponding
+ load and execute &os; binaries, if there are no corresponding
Linux binaries present, and that you could place a &man.uname.1;
command in the <filename>/compat/linux</filename> directory tree
to ensure that the Linux binaries could not tell they were not
running on Linux.</para>
- <para>In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel; the
+ <para>In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the &os; kernel; the
various underlying functions that implement all of the services
- provided by the kernel are identical to both the FreeBSD system
+ provided by the kernel are identical to both the &os; system
call table entries, and the Linux system call table entries: file
system operations, virtual memory operations, signal delivery,
- System V IPC, etc… The only difference is that FreeBSD
- binaries get the FreeBSD <emphasis>glue</emphasis> functions, and
+ System V IPC, etc… The only difference is that &os;
+ binaries get the &os; <emphasis>glue</emphasis> functions, and
Linux binaries get the Linux <emphasis>glue</emphasis> functions
(most older OS's only had their own <emphasis>glue</emphasis>
functions: addresses of functions in a static global
@@ -3336,10 +3338,10 @@
the <literal>proc</literal> structure of the process making the
call).</para>
- <para>Which one is the native FreeBSD ABI? It does not matter.
+ <para>Which one is the native &os; ABI? It does not matter.
Basically the only difference is that (currently; this could
easily be changed in a future release, and probably will be after
- this) the FreeBSD <emphasis>glue</emphasis> functions are
+ this) the &os; <emphasis>glue</emphasis> functions are
statically linked into the kernel, and the Linux <emphasis>glue</emphasis> functions
can be statically linked, or they can be accessed via a kernel
module.</para>
@@ -3349,13 +3351,24 @@
simulator, to cut off the next question) involved.</para>
<para>So why is it sometimes called <quote>Linux emulation</quote>?
- To make it hard to sell FreeBSD! Really, it
+ To make it hard to sell &os;! Really, it
is because the historical implementation was done at a time when
there was really no word other than that to describe what was
- going on; saying that FreeBSD ran Linux binaries was not true, if
+ going on; saying that FreeBSD
+
+ <footnote>
+ <indexterm><primary>FreeBSD</primary></indexterm>
+
+ <para>FreeBSD's original Linux compatibility code was
+ committed in June 1995. It fulfilled milestone number one:
+ running DOOM.</para> </footnote>
+
+ ran Linux binaries was not true, if
you did not compile the code in or load a module, and there needed
to be a word to describe what was being loaded—hence
<quote>the Linux emulator</quote>.</para>
+
+
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
9) This is DragonFly. And also mention pkgsrc.
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diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.4 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml 9 Feb 2005 03:58:54 -0000 1.4
+++ en/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:08:03 -0000
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@
<para>You may view the MX records for any domain by using the
&man.host.1; command, as seen in the example below:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>host -t mx FreeBSD.org</userinput>
-FreeBSD.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mx1.FreeBSD.org</screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>host -t mx DragonflyBSD.org</userinput>
+DragonflyBSD.org mail is handled (pri=10) by crater.dragonflybsd.org</screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="mail-receive">
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
</indexterm>
<para>&man.sendmail.8; is the default Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) in
- FreeBSD. <application>sendmail</application>'s job is to accept
+ &os;. <application>sendmail</application>'s job is to accept
mail from Mail User Agents (<acronym>MUA</acronym>) and deliver it
to the appropriate mailer as defined by its configuration file.
<application>sendmail</application> can also accept network
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@
<para>You have a wide choice of MTAs available. A good
starting point is the
+ &pkgsrc; collection or
<link linkend="ports">FreeBSD Ports Collection</link> where
you will be able to find many. Of course you are free to use
any MTA you want from any location, as long as you can make
@@ -741,10 +742,10 @@
<title>Running Your New MTA on Boot</title>
<para>You may have a choice of two methods for running your
- new MTA on boot, again depending on what version of FreeBSD
+ new MTA on boot, again depending on what version of &os;
you are running.</para>
- <para>With later versions of FreeBSD, you can use the
+ <para>With later versions of &os;, you can use the
above method or you can set</para>
<programlisting>mta_start_script="filename"</programlisting>
@@ -1072,7 +1073,7 @@
hosts as long as you have set up
<filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> or are running your own
name server. If you would like to have mail for your host
- delivered to the MTA (e.g., <application>sendmail</application>) on your own FreeBSD host, there are two methods:</para>
+ delivered to the MTA (e.g., <application>sendmail</application>) on your own &os; host, there are two methods:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -1702,7 +1703,7 @@
way they interact with email; this gives users increased
functionality and flexibility. &os; contains support for
numerous mail user agents, all of which can be easily installed
- using the <link linkend="ports">FreeBSD Ports Collection</link>.
+ using the &pkgsrc; or <link linkend="ports">FreeBSD Ports</link> collections.
Users may choose between graphical email clients such as
<application>evolution</application> or
<application>balsa</application>, console based clients such as
10) Add BSD-Systems (from Wiki). Should Crescent Anchor entry be moved
(and where is their DragonFly CD link)? Add paragraph about FTP
(from FreeBSD Handbook). And use the generated FTP list (via entity).
And this is DragonFly! And add some CVS tags.
Index: en/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
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retrieving revision 1.2
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml 2 Aug 2004 18:47:45 -0000 1.2
+++ en/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:08:05 -0000
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
<para>&os; is available as a purchasable CD:</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: should this section be with following? and where is the CD? -->
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<address>
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>CD and DVD Sets</title>
- <para>FreeBSD CD and DVD sets are available from many online
+ <para>DragonFly BSD CD and DVD sets are available from online
retailers:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -42,10 +43,17 @@
Phone: <phone>+1 800 407-5170</phone>
Fax: <fax>+1 1 801 765-0877</fax>
Email: <email>sales@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
- WWW: <otheraddr><ulink url="http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html";></ulink></otheraddr>
+ WWW: <otheraddr><ulink url="http://www.bsdmall.com/";></ulink></otheraddr>
</address>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <address>
+ <otheraddr>BSD-Systems</otheraddr>
+ Email: <email>sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</email>
+ WWW: <otheraddr><ulink url="http://www.bsd-systems.co.uk/";></ulink></otheraddr>
+ </address>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -67,6 +75,21 @@
url="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/download.cgi";>&os; mirror
sites list</ulink> is the best, most up-to-date source.</para>
+ <para>Additionally, &os; is available via anonymous FTP from the
+ following mirror sites. If you choose to obtain &os; via anonymous
+ FTP, please try to use a site near you. The mirror sites listed as
+ <quote>Primary Mirror Sites</quote> typically have the entire &os; archive (all
+ the currently available versions for each of the architectures) but
+ you will probably have faster download times from a site that is
+ in your country or region. The regional sites carry the most recent
+ versions for the most popular architecture(s) but might not carry
+ the entire &os; archive. All sites provide access via anonymous
+ FTP but some sites also provide access via other methods. The access
+ methods available for each site are provided in parentheses
+ after the hostname.</para>
+
+ &chap.mirrors.ftp.inc;
+
</sect1>
@@ -630,7 +653,7 @@
<sect2 id="cvsup-mirrors">
<title>CVSup Sites</title>
- <para><link linkend="cvsup">CVSup</link> servers for FreeBSD are running
+ <para><link linkend="cvsup">CVSup</link> servers for &os; are running
at the following sites:</para>
&chap.mirrors.cvsup.inc;
@@ -666,7 +689,22 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
+ <!-- reed: todo: is this correct? -->
<term>RELENG_1_0_RELEASE</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&os; 1.0</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>DragonFly_RELEASE_1_2</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>&os; 1.2</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>DragonFly_1_0_REL</term>
<listitem>
<para>&os; 1.0</para>
11) Mention pkgsrc. Add many comments for stuff to fix or check.
Don't specifically mention just XFree86.
Fix section name for The transcode Utilities section (packages is more
generic). Add replace reference of FreeBSD to DragonFly.
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--- en/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml 5 Nov 2004 18:36:35 -0000 1.3
+++ en/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:08:09 -0000
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
to enjoy high fidelity output from your computer. This includes
the ability to record and playback audio in the MPEG Audio Layer
3 (MP3), WAV, and Ogg Vorbis formats as well as many other
- formats. The FreeBSD Ports Collection also contains
+ formats. The &pkgsrc; and FreeBSD Ports collections also contain
applications allowing you to edit your recorded audio, add sound
effects, and control attached MIDI devices.</para>
@@ -37,9 +37,10 @@
between formats, as there is with <filename
role="package">audio/sox</filename>. However, the software
landscape in this area is changing rapidly.</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: is the above "no good re-encoding" true? -->
<para>This chapter will describe the necessary steps to configure
- your sound card. The configuration and installation of <application>&xfree86;</application>
+ your sound card. The configuration and installation of X11
(<xref linkend="x11">) has already taken care of the
hardware issues for your video card, though there may be some
tweaks to apply for better playback.</para>
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>How video is supported by <application>&xfree86;</application>.</para>
+ <para>How video is supported by the X server.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -93,11 +94,6 @@
linkend="kernelconfig">).</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>For the video sections, it is assumed that <application>&xfree86; 4.X</application>
- (<filename role='package'>x11/XFree86-4</filename>) has been
- installed. <application>x.org</application> may work, but it has not been tested
- with what is described in this chapter. </para>
-
<warning>
<para>Trying to mount audio CDs
with the &man.mount.8; command will
@@ -237,6 +233,7 @@
page for more information.</para>
<note>
+ <!-- todo: reed: what about this? -->
<para>The Sound Blaster Live is not supported under FreeBSD 4.0
without a patch, which this section will not cover. It is
recommended that you update to the latest -STABLE before
@@ -404,6 +401,7 @@
<para>Various applications, such as <filename
role="package">audio/workman</filename> offer a better
+ <!-- todo: reed: not in pkgsrc -->
interface. You may want to install an application such as
<filename role="package">audio/mpg123</filename> to listen to
MP3 audio files.</para>
@@ -532,7 +530,7 @@
<sect2 id="mp3-players">
<title>MP3 Players</title>
- <para>By far, the most popular <application>&xfree86;</application> MP3 player is
+ <para>A popular X11 MP3 player is
<application>XMMS</application> (X Multimedia System).
<application>Winamp</application>
skins can be used with <application>XMMS</application> since the
@@ -543,6 +541,7 @@
<para><application>XMMS</application> can be installed from the
<filename role="package">multimedia/xmms</filename> port or package.</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: under audio category for pkgsrc -->
<para><application>XMMS'</application> interface is intuitive,
with a playlist, graphic equalizer, and more. Those familiar
@@ -587,6 +586,7 @@
the <filename role="package">sysutils/cdrtools</filename>
suite, is used for ripping audio information from CDs and the
information associated with them.</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: pkgsrc is still called sysutils/cdrecord -->
<para>With the audio CD in the drive, the following command can
be issued (as <username>root</username>) to rip an entire CD
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
<para>Nowadays, the mp3 encoder of choice is
<application>lame</application>.
<application>Lame</application> can be found at
- <filename role="package">audio/lame</filename> in the ports tree.</para>
+ <filename role="package">audio/lame</filename> in the pkgsrc and ports trees.</para>
<para>Using the ripped WAV files, the following command will
convert <filename>audio01.wav</filename> to
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
it did with sound.</para>
<para>Before you begin, you should know the model of the video
- card you have and the chip it uses. While <application>&xfree86;</application> supports a
+ card you have and the chip it uses. While <application>&xfree86;</application> and <application>&xorg;</application> support a
wide variety of video cards, fewer give good playback
performance. To obtain a list of extensions supported by the
X server using your card use the command &man.xdpyinfo.1; while
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@
<secondary>options USER_LDT</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <para>Some of the ports discussed rely on the following kernel
+ <para>Some of the packages discussed rely on the following kernel
options to build correctly. Before attempting to build, add
these options to the kernel configuration file, build a new kernel, and reboot:</para>
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@
method described below will have varying quality across
different hardware. Secondly, the rendering of video in X11 is
a topic receiving a lot of attention lately, and with each
- version of <application>&xfree86;</application> there may be significant improvement.</para>
+ version of <application>&xorg;</application> or <application>&xfree86;</application> there may be significant improvement.</para>
<para>A list of common video interfaces:</para>
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
<sect3 id="video-interface-xvideo">
<title>XVideo</title>
- <para><application>&xfree86; 4.X</application> has an extension called
+ <para>Both <application>&xfree86; 4.X</application> and <application>&xorg;</application> have an extension called
<emphasis>XVideo</emphasis> (aka Xvideo, aka Xv, aka xv) which
allows video to be directly displayed in drawable objects
through a special acceleration. This extension provides very
@@ -865,6 +865,7 @@
</orderedlist>
<para>If your card is not one of these, do not be disappointed yet.
+ <!-- todo: reed: clean this up -->
<application>&xfree86; 4.X</application> adds new xv capabilities with each release
<footnote>
<para>A popular familiar graphics card with generally very good
@@ -978,14 +979,14 @@
low-level abstraction to the hardware which can sometimes be
more efficient than the X11 interface.</para>
- <para>The SDL can be found at <filename role="package">devel/sdl12</filename>.</para>
+ <para>The SDL can be found at <filename role="package">devel/sdl12</filename> (or <filename role="package">pkgsrc/devel/SDL2</filename>).</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="video-interface-DGA">
<title>Direct Graphics Access</title>
- <para>Direct Graphics Access is an <application>&xfree86;</application> extension which allows
+ <para>Direct Graphics Access is an X11 extension which allows
a program to bypass the X server and directly alter the
framebuffer. Because it relies on a low level memory mapping to
effect this sharing, programs using it must be run as
@@ -1000,14 +1001,14 @@
</sect2>
- <sect2 id="video-ports">
+ <sect2 id="video-packages">
<title>Ports and Packages Dealing with Video</title>
<indexterm><primary>video ports</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>video packages</primary></indexterm>
<para>This section discusses the software available from the
- FreeBSD Ports Collection which can be used for video playback.
+ &pkgsrc; and FreeBSD Ports collections which can be used for video playback.
Video playback is a very active area of software development,
and the capabilities of various applications are bound to
diverge somewhat from the descriptions given here.</para>
@@ -1076,7 +1077,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Software not yet in the FreeBSD Ports Collection
+ <para>Software not yet in the &pkgsrc; or FreeBSD Ports collections
which is commonly used in conjunction with the application.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1113,6 +1114,7 @@
ports and not to use a binary package. Additionally, a
number of options can be specified in the <command>make</command>
command line, as described at the start of the build.</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: mention pkgsrc here too -->
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make</userinput>
@@ -1125,6 +1127,7 @@
You can enable XAnim DLL support by defining WITH_XANIM.
</screen>
+ <!-- todo: reed: this is ports specific, could add pkgsrc notes -->
<para>If you have <filename
role="package">x11-toolkits/gtk12</filename> installed, then
you might as well enable the GUI. Otherwise, it is not
@@ -1289,6 +1292,7 @@
<application>xine</application> which will play CSS encoded DVD's. There are third party
builds which do have modules for this built in them, but none
of these are in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: what about pkgsrc? -->
<para>Compared to <application>MPlayer</application>, <application>xine</application> does more for the user, but at the
same time, takes some of the more fine-grained control away from
@@ -1308,7 +1312,7 @@
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="video-ports-transcode">
+ <sect3 id="video-packages-transcode">
<title>The transcode Utilities</title>
<para>The software <application>transcode</application> is not a player, but a suite of tools for
@@ -1318,13 +1322,14 @@
interfaces.</para>
<para>Like <application>MPlayer</application>, <application>transcode</application> is very experimental software which
- must be build from the port <filename
+ must be build from ports or &pkgsrc; at <filename
role="package">multimedia/transcode</filename>. Using a great
many options to the <command>make</command> command. I
recommend:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make WITH_LIBMPEG2=yes</userinput></screen>
+ <!-- todo: reed: ports specific, add pkgsrc notes? -->
<para>If you plan to install <filename
role="package">multimedia/avifile</filename>, then add the
<literal>WITH_AVIFILE</literal> option to your
@@ -1365,7 +1370,7 @@
<sect2 id="video-further-reading">
<title>Further Reading</title>
- <para>The various video software packages for FreeBSD are
+ <para>The various video software packages for &os; are
developing rapidly. It is quite possible that in the near
future many of the problems discussed here will have been
resolved. In the mean time, those who
@@ -1399,6 +1404,7 @@
is also a port <filename
role='package'>multimedia/avifile</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
+ <!-- todo: reed: in pkgsrc-wip currently -->
<listitem>
<para><ulink
@@ -1532,7 +1538,8 @@
<application>fxtv</application>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><filename role="package">misc/alevt</filename> decodes
+ <para><filename role="package">misc/alevt</filename>
+ (or <filename role="package">pkgsrc/multimedia/alevt</filename>) decodes
and displays Videotext/Teletext.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -1543,11 +1550,12 @@
<listitem>
<para><filename role="package">audio/wmtune</filename>, a handy
desktop application for radio tuners.</para>
+ <!-- todo: reed: not in pkgsrc? -->
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>More applications are available in the FreeBSD Ports
- Collection.</para>
+ <para>More applications are available in the &pkgsrc; and FreeBSD Ports
+ collections.</para>
cvs server: Diffing en/books/handbook/preface
12) This is DragonFly. And add my name (as I expect to work more :)
(Let's make sure we add DragonFly doc team to this list too.)
Index: en/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 preface.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml 2 Aug 2004 18:47:45 -0000 1.2
+++ en/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:08:10 -0000
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
<term><emphasis><xref linkend="security">, Security</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Describes many different tools available to help keep your
- FreeBSD system secure, including Kerberos, IPsec, OpenSSH, and
+ &os; system secure, including Kerberos, IPsec, OpenSSH, and
network firewalls.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
<screen><prompt>E:\></prompt> <userinput>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp A:</userinput></screen>
<para>Examples starting with &prompt.root; indicate a command that
- must be invoked as the superuser in FreeBSD. You can login as
+ must be invoked as the superuser in &os;. You can login as
<username>root</username> to type the command, or login as your
normal account and use &man.su.1; to gain
superuser privileges.</para>
@@ -363,10 +363,10 @@
<para>The DragonFly Handbook was originally built from an edition of the
FreeBSD Handbook. The FreeBSD Handbook was created by the collective
- hard work of hundreds of people, and the DragonFlyBSD Documentation Team
+ hard work of hundreds of people, and the &os; Documentation Team
appreciates all their labor. Included here is a list of all
individually identified people and corporations that contributed
- resources to the FreeBSD Handbook.</para>
+ resources to this handbook.</para>
<para>Eric Anderson, Satoshi Asami, Bojan Bistrovic, Neil Blakey-Milner, Andrew
Boothman, Harti Brandt, Jim Brown, BSDi, Andrey A. Chernov, Peter Childs, Munish
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
Mock, Marcel Moolenaar, Moses Moore, Bill Moran, Rich Murphey, Mark Murray, Alex
Nash, Gregory Neil Shapiro, David O'Brien, Eric Ogren, Gary Palmer, Hiten M.
Pandya, Bill Paul, Dan Pelleg, Steve Peterson, John Polstra, Andy
- Polyakov, Randy Pratt, Tom Rhodes, Trev Roydhouse, Peter Schultz, Piero Serini,
+ Polyakov, Randy Pratt, Jeremy C. Reed, Tom Rhodes, Trev Roydhouse, Peter Schultz, Piero Serini,
Christopher Shumway, Marc Silver, Mike Smith, Brian Somers,
Gennady B. Sorokopud, Wylie Stilwell, Murray Stokely, Greg Sutter, Bill Swingle,
Valentino Vaschetto, Robert Watson,
13) Mention pkgsrc too.
Index: en/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.3 chapter.sgml
--- en/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml 19 Jul 2004 15:37:52 -0000 1.3
+++ en/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml 17 Jun 2005 19:08:15 -0000
@@ -667,7 +667,9 @@
knows that these new files have been installed.
<command>ttmkfdir</command> is available from the FreeBSD
Ports Collection as
- <filename role="package">x11-fonts/ttmkfdir</filename>.</para>
+ <filename role="package">x11-fonts/ttmkfdir</filename>
+ or the &pkgsrc; collection at
+ <filename role="package">fonts/ttmkfdir2</filename>.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>ttmkfdir > fonts.dir</userinput></screen>
14) This is DragonFly. This does make it farther from original though,
so this could be skipped for now. But I really think it is too far
to keep both in sync.
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/share/sgml/catalog,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 catalog
--- share/sgml/catalog 25 Jun 2004 15:54:58 -0000 1.2
+++ share/sgml/catalog 17 Jun 2005 19:08:22 -0000
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
-- ...................................................................... --
-- Language neutral ..................................................... --
- -- These identifiers are shared across all translations of the FreeBSD
+ -- These identifiers are shared across all translations of the
documentation, even though the listed language is "EN"
--
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
-- English specific ..................................................... --
-- These identifiers should only be used by English language versions of
- the FreeBSD Documentation.
+ the documentation.
All other translations should base their FPIs on these, but change the
final parameter in the FPI to represent the target language, as
15) Add entity for X.org. And also this is DragonFly.
Index: share/sgml/dragonfly.ent
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/share/sgml/dragonfly.ent,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.4 dragonfly.ent
--- share/sgml/dragonfly.ent 2 Jul 2004 13:24:07 -0000 1.4
+++ share/sgml/dragonfly.ent 17 Jun 2005 19:08:22 -0000
@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@
<!-- Use this entity when refering to 'UNIX' in your document. -->
<!ENTITY unix "<trademark class='registered'>UNIX</trademark>">
+<!-- This is for X.org because no trademark seen. -->
+<!ENTITY xorg "X.org">
+
<!-- This entity should be overridden for the print output case to
properly render TeX. -->
<!ENTITY tex 'TeX'>
-<!-- The currently released version of FreeBSD. This value is used to
+<!-- The currently released version of DragonFly BSD. This value is used to
create some links on web sites and such, so do NOT change it until
it's really release time -->
<!ENTITY rel.current CDATA "1.1">
16) This didn't read correctly since we have different domains.
Index: share/sgml/mirrors-master.xsl
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/share/sgml/mirrors-master.xsl,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 mirrors-master.xsl
--- share/sgml/mirrors-master.xsl 8 Apr 2004 18:25:51 -0000 1.2
+++ share/sgml/mirrors-master.xsl 17 Jun 2005 19:08:23 -0000
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
<xsl:template name="mirrors-docbook-contact">
<xsl:param name="email" select="'someone@somewhere'"/>
- <para>In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster
- <email><xsl:value-of select="$email" /></email> for this domain.</para>
+ <para>In case of problems, please contact
+ <email><xsl:value-of select="$email" /></email>.</para>
</xsl:template>
<!-- template: "mirrors-lastmodified" -->
17)
Index: share/sgml/mirrors.xml
I will provide this separate. A diff doesn't make sense.
18) Add trademark entities for NetBSD and pkgsrc.
Index: share/sgml/trademarks.ent
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/share/sgml/trademarks.ent,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -I\$DragonFly.*\$ -b -u -r1.2 trademarks.ent
--- share/sgml/trademarks.ent 25 Jun 2004 15:54:59 -0000 1.2
+++ share/sgml/trademarks.ent 17 Jun 2005 19:08:24 -0000
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
<!ENTITY mac "<trademark class='registered'>Mac</trademark>">
<!ENTITY macintosh "<trademark class='registered'>Macintosh</trademark>">
<!ENTITY macos "<trademark class='registered'>Mac OS</trademark>">
+<!ENTITY netbsd "<trademark class='registered'>NetBSD</trademark>">
+<!ENTITY pkgsrc "<trademark class='registered'>pkgsrc</trademark>">
<!ENTITY quicktime "<trademark class='registered'>Quicktime</trademark>">
<!ENTITY truetype "<trademark class='registered'>TrueType</trademark>">
Jeremy C. Reed
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