Changeset 60a58e6a

Timestamp:

04/13/2006 05:42:39 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Children:

89bca06

Parents:

bd84add

Message:

Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's convention for storing man pages.
Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and Alexander Patrakov.
Resolves Ticket 1694.
Merged from trunk r7499.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/udev_update/BOOK@7505 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/db.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter06/man-db.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
       <para>April 12, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
+          Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
+          convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
+          Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
+        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim

chapter06/db.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
 
     <tip>
-      <title>Extra functionality for Berkeley DB in BLFS</title>
+      <title>Other Installation Possibilities</title>
 
       <para>There are instructions to build this package in the BLFS
@@ -48 +48 @@
       <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/server/databases.html#db"/> for
       suggested installation instructions.</para>
+
+      <para>Also, if you would prefer to skip Berkeley DB entirely
+      and use GDBM instead, see the BLFS instructions located at
+      <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/general/gdbm.html"/></para>
+      
     </tip>
 

chapter06/man-db.xml

@@ -158 +158 @@
     manual pages designed for different distributions.</para>
 
-    <para>LFS uses the same conventions as Debian. The relationship between
-    language codes and the expected encoding of manual pages is listed below.
-    Man-DB automatically converts them to the locale encoding while viewing.</para>
+    <para>LFS uses the same conventions as Debian. This was chosen because
+    Man-DB does not understand man pages stored in UTF-8. And, for our
+    purposes, Man-DB is preferable to Man as it works without extra
+    configuration in any locale. Lastly, as of now, there is no fully-working
+    implementation of the RedHat convention. RedHat's groff is known to
+    misformat text.</para>
+ 
+    <para>The relationship between language codes and the expected encoding
+    of manual pages is listed below. Man-DB automatically converts them to
+    the locale encoding while viewing.</para>
 
     <!-- Origin: man-db-2.4.3/src/encodings.c -->