On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:55:24PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > I'll give it a try to describe things in my "upcoming" patch. Then you can > > correct my probably-incorrect version. Maybe things work better that way. > > Patches are welcome, of course. Attached. A unified diff this time against the CVS version of this morning, however doesn't really make it much smaller ;-) Major topics (for the CVS log ;-): - Included sparc stuff (Ben, please check if I've got it correct; you may want to wait for it to appear on CVS) - Removed entire upgrade chapter for powerpc and arm since they don't have any upgrading at all. - Extended apt setup stuff. I think this is _very_ important for first-time apt users, since the manpages aren't quite helpful. (And we don't want users to refer to manpages anyway; if we wanted, a single reference would be enough for the entire upgrade section ;-) -> Please do not delete anything there! - Added a few issues that were reported to me via other channels - A reference at the end that kernel is not upgraded (report of this morning) - A great many updates to make the text more readable. Esp. converting the "telegram style" (is that english word? stop. ;-) to "normal" text, and a few back/forward references to make clear that things were/will be discussed already/soon. (Documentation is usually regarded as reflecting the quality of the item, so if the docs are lacking words, the item is lacking features ;-) - Put together the three `hold'-related paragraphs which were separated by `su' and `script'; moved those up a bit. - Emacs seems to indent examples as well, which is bad. Futher details of changes are in <!-- comments -->. Also added a lot of comments to point out the intention of that particular piece (like in C); those are not meant to be removed. Oh, and one more thing I just think about now (not in the patch): replace ...using dselect or another visual frontend. In the dselect [S]elect screen, press... with ...using dselect or another visual frontend. In dselect, you first have to choose `apt' as the [A]ccess method, and [U]pdate dselect's database with the new packages information. Then in the [S]elect screen, press... (Otherwise things will go _way_ wrong there...) Regards, Anne Bezemer
Attachment:
relnotes.patch.gz
Description: Binary data