Re: ipfw man pages vs. 5.3-Stable; needs modification!

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:31:48PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:21:52PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:56:21AM +0900, Rob wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > The manpages of ipfw needs modification with respect to
> > > the IPFW vs.IPFW2 discussion.
> > > All this is quite misleading when 5.3 becomes stable.
> > > 
> > Do you mean you want the IPFW vs. IPFW2 information to be
> > removed from the manpage?  If yes, I don't support this.
> > There will be a lot of people switching from 4.x to 5.x,
> > and it can be helpful for them.  We can remove this in
> > future releases though.
> 
> He probably means that the references to -STABLE in the manpage needs
> to be changed to say 4.x instead (and the references to -CURRENT
> probably should say 5.x instead), since when 5.3 becomes stable it will
> no longer be true that -STABLE uses IPFW as default (which is what the
> manpage says.)
> 
Ah yes, indeed.  See if ipfw.8,v 1.152 is what you wanted.
If it's ok, I will order an MFC.


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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