Changeset af8a78d

Timestamp:

01/10/2018 10:44:47 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

aa79220

Parents:

c9d977e8

Message:

Fix various typos/wordings

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19660 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general/genlib/js38.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/prog/perl-modules.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/prog/python3.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/sysutils/acpid.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/sysutils/hdparm.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general/sysutils/pm-utils.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• networking/netlibs/curl.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/config/devices.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/config/firmware.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/filesystems/lvm2.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/filesystems/mdadm.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/filesystems/parted.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/security/polkit.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• server/mail/exim.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/genlib/js38.xml

@@ -161 +161 @@
 
     <para>
-      <command>autoconf213</command>: This command regenerates the configure
+      <command>autoconf2.13</command>: This command regenerates the configure
       script with the changes from the patch.
     </para>
@@ -167 +167 @@
     <para>
       <parameter>--with-*</parameter>: These parameters allow the build system
-      to use system versions of the above libriares. These are required for
+      to use system versions of the above libraries. These are required for
       stability.
     </para>

general/prog/perl-modules.xml

@@ -898 +898 @@
       <!-- Params-Validate -->
       <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Params-Validate/">Params::Validate</ulink>
-(http::/search.cpan.org/dist/Params-Validate/) - uses <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/></literallayout>
+(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Params-Validate/) - uses <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/></literallayout>
          <!-- deps for Params::Validate:
          Module::Build is a dep of Module::Implementation via Module::Runtime,
@@ -1757 +1757 @@
     <para>The SGMLSpm module is a <application>Perl</application> library
       used for parsing the output from James Clark's SGMLS and NSGMLS
-      parsers. This modules uses the standard
+      parsers. This module uses the standard
     <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>.</para>
 

general/prog/python3.xml

@@ -161 +161 @@
       The test suite must be run separately from the build, either before or
       after the package is built and installed. Do not run
-      <command>make install</command>, after running the test suite. To build
+      <command>make install</command> after running the test suite. To build
       and install the package, you need to start with a fresh or clean source
       tree. For the test, you also need a clean source code, so either start by

general/sysutils/acpid.xml

@@ -140 +140 @@
       Unfortunately, not every computer labels ACPI events in the same way. To
       determine how your buttons are recognized, use the
-      <command>acpi_listen</command> tool. Also, look in package documentation's
-      samples directory for more examples.
+      <command>acpi_listen</command> tool. Also, look in the <filename
+      class="directory">samples</filename> directory under <filename
+      class="directory">/usr/share/doc/acpid-&acpid-version;</filename>
+      for more examples.
     </para>
 

general/sysutils/hdparm.xml

@@ -32 +32 @@
     <para>
       The <application>Hdparm</application> package contains a utility that
-      is useful for controlling ATA/IDE controllers and hard drives both to
+      is useful for obtaining information about, and controlling ATA/IDE
+      controllers and hard drives. It allows to
       increase performance and sometimes to increase stability.
     </para>

general/sysutils/pm-utils.xml

@@ -31 +31 @@
 
     <para>
-      The <application>Power Management Utilities</application> is a small
-      collection of scripts to suspend and hibernate a computer that can be used
-      to run user supplied scripts on suspend and resume.
+      The <application>Power Management Utilities</application> provide
+      simple shell command line tools to suspend and hibernate the computer.
+      They can be used to run user supplied scripts on suspend and resume.
     </para>
 
@@ -191 +191 @@
       In order to use hibernation with <application>GRUB</application> and a
       swap partition, you need to add kernel parameter
-      <literal>resume=<replaceable>swap_partition</replaceable></literal> (i.e.
+      <literal>resume=<replaceable>swap_partition</replaceable></literal> (e.g.
       <literal>resume=/dev/sda1</literal>) to the kernel line in the
       <filename>/boot/grub/grub.cfg</filename> configuration file.

networking/netlibs/curl.xml

@@ -164 +164 @@
       </para>
 
-      <para>Current versions of LFS does not strip /lib/ld-2.23.so but
+      <para>Current versions of LFS do not strip /lib/ld-2.23.so but
       previous versions of LFS stripped these debugging symbols at the end of
-      Chapter 6. To get this library on oldeer systems, glibc must be rebuilt 
+      Chapter 6. To get this library on older systems, glibc must be rebuilt 
       with the current
       glibc version using the same compiler that was used to build LFS. The

postlfs/config/devices.xml

@@ -179 +179 @@
     <title>Devices for DVD Drives</title>
 
-    <para>If the initial boot process doe not set up the 
+    <para>If the initial boot process does not set up the 
     <systemitem>/dev/dvd</systemitem> device properly, it can
     be installed using the following modification to the default udev rules.

postlfs/config/firmware.xml

@@ -268 +268 @@
       family):</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cp -v /lib/firmware/amd_ucode/&lt;MYCONTAINER&gt; kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cp -v /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/&lt;MYCONTAINER&gt; kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>Or for an Intel machine copy the appropriate blob using this command:</para>

postlfs/filesystems/lvm2.xml

@@ -194 +194 @@
 
     <para>
-      Those tests do not implement the <quote>expected fail</quote> possibility,
+      The tests do not implement the <quote>expected fail</quote> possibility,
       and a small number of test failures is expected by upstream. More
       failures may happen because some kernel options are missing. For example,

postlfs/filesystems/mdadm.xml

@@ -139 +139 @@
 
     <para>
-      <parameter>--logdir=test-logs</parameter>: Defines that the directory
+      <parameter>--logdir=test-logs</parameter>: Defines the directory
       where test logs are saved.
     </para>

postlfs/filesystems/parted.xml

@@ -117 +117 @@
 
     <para>If you wish to run the test suite, first remove a test that normally
-    fails in BLFS, because it needs a locale C.UTF-8:</para>
+    fails in BLFS (because it needs a locale C.UTF-8):</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>sed -i '/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh/d' tests/Makefile</userinput></screen>

postlfs/security/polkit.xml

@@ -39 +39 @@
     &lfs81_checked;
 
-    <note><para>Due to lack of relases, a tarball has been generated for use by
+    <note><para>Due to lack of releases, a tarball has been generated for use by
     BLFS, which includes a git checkout at ref 2919920, and a pending patch to
     use js38. The patch is included in the tarball for review.</para></note>

server/mail/exim.xml

@@ -302 +302 @@
         settings to suit your needs. Note that the default configuration
         assumes that the <filename class="directory">/var/mail</filename>
-        directory is world writable, but has the stiky bit set. If you want
+        directory is world writable, but has the sticky bit set. If you want
         to use the default configuration, issue as the <systemitem
         class="username">root</systemitem> user: