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1-*- text -*- 2RELNOTESng README 3Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> 4$FreeBSD: stable/11/release/doc/README 268351 2014-07-07 00:27:09Z marcel $ 5 6This is the top-level directory for RELNOTESng, a re-write of 7FreeBSD's *.TXT documentation files. They have been converted to 8DocBook, and versions of the documents can be now be built for various 9supported architectures. The output files can be rendered in any 10format supported by the FreeBSD Documentation Project (for example, 11ASCII text, PDF, PS, HTML). 12 13RELNOTESng requires that the FreeBSD doc/ sources are installed; it 14leverages off of much of the DocProj build infrastructure, including 15DocBook extensions and stylesheets. If the doc/ sources are not 16installed in /usr/src, their location should be specified with the 17DOC_PREFIX Makefile variable. RELNOTESng also requires the DocProj 18build tools, which can easily be installed with the textproc/docproj 19port in the Ports Collection. 20 21Notable files and directories: 22 23share/mk/doc.relnotes.mk 24 Common Makefile definitions for RELNOTESng. These definitions 25 mostly accommodate the fact that we're building DocProj-like 26 documents outside the doc/ tree. 27share/xml/catalog 28 Main SGML catalog for all language-neutral (and default EN) 29 stylesheet and entity files. Can be overridden if needed for 30 translations. 31share/xml/default.dsl 32 All documents build with this file as a stylesheet. All it 33 does is to make it possible to use the document catalogs to 34 locate the "real" stylesheet by reference, rather than having 35 to specify it by pathname. 36share/xml/release.dsl 37 Language-neutral stylesheet. This stylesheet supports 38 the arch= attribute on (all?) DocBook elements; elements with 39 an arch= attribute are only included in the output if their 40 value is equal to the value of the &arch; entity. In the 41 future, arch= could be a list of possible &arch; entity values 42 that match, such as "i386,sparc64". 43share/xml/release.ent 44 Release information. Need to update the entry definitions in 45 this file when rolling new revisions; these should take effect 46 in all documents. 47 48en_US.ISO8859-1/share/xml/release.dsl 49 Language-dependent stylesheet for en, but also the default for 50 translations if they don't override the settings here. This 51 stylesheet sets the email footer at the bottom of HTML pages, 52 as well as a few other parameters. If necessary for 53 translations, this file can be overridden with 54 */share/xml/release.dsl and */share/xml/catalog. 55 56*/relnotes/common/ 57 Directory for multi-architecture release notes files. 58*/relnotes/*/ 59 Directories for architecture-specific release notes files. 60 61*/hardware/common/ 62 Directory for multi-architecture hardware notes files. 63*/hardware/*/ 64 Directories for architecture-specific hardware notes files. 65 66*/installation/common/ 67 Directory for multi-architecture installation notes files. 68 Note that the FreeBSD DocProj build infrastructure does 69 not handle documents (or subdirectories) named "install" 70 well, so we call our document "installation" and do 71 a hack when it gets installed into a distribution to fix 72 this up. 73*/installation/*/ 74 Directories for architecture-specific release notes files. 75 76*/errata/ 77 Directory for errata document. 78 79*/readme/ 80 Directory for (introductory) document. 81 82If building the release notes "standalone" (in other words, not part 83of a release), it may be necessary (depending on the relative 84locations of the checked-out src/ and doc/ directories) to set the 85DOC_PREFIX Makefile variable to point to the top directory of the doc/ 86tree. For example: 87 88 % make DOC_PREFIX=/usr/doc all 89 90All definition of the "current" version of FreeBSD is contained in the 91share/xml/release.ent file; release engineers should peruse the 92contents of this file carefully when doing version number bumps. 93 94When creating content for the architecture-dependent files, authors 95should use the arch= attribute to elements that are specific to a 96particular machine architecture. The value of this attribute should 97be a single word that indicates for which architecture the current 98element will be included. For example: 99 100 <para arch="sparc64">SPARC64-specific text</para> 101 102The currently-supported architectures are amd64, arm, i386, pc98, 103powerpc and sparc64. An element may appear for multiple architectures 104by specifying a comma-separated list of architectures 105(i.e. arch="sparc64,amd64"). 106 107When creating a translation, make a new directory under this 108directory with a language code (paralleling the DocProj directory 109structure). If necessary, new language-dependent HTML footers can be 110generated by making a new language-dependent 111${LANG}/share/xml/release.dsl, a ${LANG}/share/xml/catalog that 112points to it, and a new definition in the Makefiles that adds 113${LANG}/share/xml/catalog to EXTRA_CATALOGS. Except for the Makefile 114changes, this is the same procedure that is used for creating a new 115translation for DocProj files. 116 117RELNOTESng is now enabled by default in the FreeBSD release-build 118process. It can be disabled by setting NODOC=YES when building a 119release (note that this is the same variable that disables DocProj 120documentation builds). 121 122Release builders can set which language gets built with the 123RELNOTES_LANG variable; note that this is different from the 124DOC_LANG variable because (at least initially) most languages 125will have localized DocProj files but not localized release notes. 126The default language, if none is specified, is en_US.ISO8859-1. 127 128