Changeset 493d6b5 for prologue

Timestamp:

06/08/2020 10:40:40 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

a89ab79

Parents:

192c668

Message:

Text updates in preface for cross2

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/cross2@11908 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

prologue

Files:

• architecture.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• organization.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• typography.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• why.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

prologue/architecture.xml

@@ -33 +33 @@
 and is 22% larger than the 32-bit build. If you plan to use LFS as a LAMP
 server, or a firewall, a 32-bit CPU may be largely sufficient. On the other
-hand, several packages in BLFS now need more that 4GB of RAM to be built
+hand, several packages in BLFS now need more than 4GB of RAM to be built
 and/or to run, so that if you plan to use LFS as a desktop, the LFS authors
 recommend building on a 64-bit system.</para>

prologue/organization.xml

@@ -30 +30 @@
 
   <sect2>
-    <title>Part III - Building the LFS System</title>
+    <title>Part III - Building the LFS Cross Toolchain and Temporary Tools</title>
 
-    <para>Part III guides the reader through the building of the LFS
+    <para>Part III provides instructions for building the tools
+    needed for construction the final LFS system.</para>
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2>
+    <title>Part IV - Building the LFS System</title>
+
+    <para>Part IV guides the reader through the building of the LFS
     system&mdash;compiling and installing all the packages one by one,
     setting up the boot scripts, and installing the kernel. The resulting
@@ -41 +48 @@
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2>
+    <title>Part V - Appendices</title>
+
+    <para>Part V provides information about the book itself including
+    acronyms and terms, acknowledgments, package dependencies, 
+    a listing of LFS boot scripts, licenses for the distribution of the 
+    book, and a comprehensive index of packages, programs, libraries, 
+    and scripts.</para>
+  </sect2>
+
 </sect1>

prologue/typography.xml

@@ -81 +81 @@
   matches <quote>passwd</quote>, which will be
   <filename>/usr/share/man/man1/passwd.1</filename>. For this example, you will
-  need to run <command>man 5 passwd</command> in order to read the specific page
-  being referred to. It should be noted that most man pages do not have duplicate
+  need to run <command>man 5 passwd</command> in order to read the page
+  being specified. Note that most man pages do not have duplicate
   page names in different sections. Therefore, <command>man <replaceable>&lt;program
   name&gt;</replaceable></command> is generally sufficient.</para>

prologue/why.xml

@@ -119 +119 @@
         <para>DejaGNU</para>
 
-        <para>This package contains a framework for testing other programs.
-        It is only installed in the temporary toolchain.</para>
+        <para>This package contains a framework for testing other programs.</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -142 +141 @@
         <para>Eudev</para>
 
-        <para>This package is a device manager.  It dynamically controls the entries
-        in the /dev directory as devices are added or removed from the system.
+        <para>This package is a device manager.  It dynamically controls the ownership,
+        permissions, names, and symbolic links of devices in the /dev directory as 
+        devices are added or removed from the system.
         </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -167 +167 @@
 
         <para>This package contains a utility for determining the type of a
-        given file or files. A few packages need it to build.</para>
+        given file or files. A few packages need it in their build scripts.</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -219 +219 @@
         <para>Glibc</para>
 
-        <para>This package contains the main C library.  Linux programs would
+        <para>This package contains the main C library.  Linux programs will
         not run without it.</para>
       </listitem>
@@ -473 +473 @@
         <para>Pkg-config</para>
 
-        <para>This package provides a program to return meta-data about an
+        <para>This package provides a program that returns meta-data about an
         installed library or package.</para>
       </listitem>
@@ -559 +559 @@
 
         <para>This package contains the Tool Command Language used
-        in many test suites in LFS packages.  It is only installed in
-        the temporary toolchain.</para>
+        in many test suites in LFS packages.</para>
       </listitem>