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Bug 261231 - Typos in Ebuild HOWTO
Summary: Typos in Ebuild HOWTO
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Community Relations Team
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/...
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Reported: 2009-03-04 21:07 UTC by Stefan Salewski
Modified: 2009-03-04 21:40 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Salewski 2009-03-04 21:07:16 UTC
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1

Maybe someone can fix these 3 typos:

"The third subsection, {_suf{#}}, is optional may contain one of these predefined suffixes, listed in least-recent to most-recent order:"

I think it should be: "is optional AND may"

"Most importantly, do not modify it in anyway and"

Please insert a space to give "any way".

"You use this function to setup an initial configuration for the"

Please insert a space to give "set up".


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-04 21:13:31 UTC
http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi :
"""
Doc Other:   	Documentation which does not deal with www.gentoo.org/doc or translations.
Doc Translations:  	All documents not in English on www.gentoo.org
Documentation:  	Guides and handbooks located under www.gentoo.org/doc
"""
Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-04 21:40:06 UTC
betelgeuse@pena /mnt/checkouts/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook $ cvs diff
Index: hb-guide-common-mistakes.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-common-mistakes.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 hb-guide-common-mistakes.xml
--- hb-guide-common-mistakes.xml        7 Sep 2006 10:24:21 -0000       1.5
+++ hb-guide-common-mistakes.xml        4 Mar 2009 21:39:31 -0000
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 <p>
 When you submit your ebuilds, the header should be <e>exactly</e> the same as
 the one in <path>/usr/portage/skel.ebuild</path>. Most importantly, do not
-modify it in anyway and make sure that the <c>&#36;Header: &#36;</c> line is
+modify it in any way and make sure that the <c>&#36;Header: &#36;</c> line is
 intact.
 </p>

Index: hb-guide-ebuild.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -r1.51 hb-guide-ebuild.xml
--- hb-guide-ebuild.xml 13 Feb 2009 14:50:57 -0000      1.51
+++ hb-guide-ebuild.xml 4 Mar 2009 21:39:31 -0000
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
 </impo>

 <p>
-The third subsection, <c>{_suf{#}}</c>, is optional may contain one of
+The third subsection, <c>{_suf{#}}</c>, is optional and may contain one of
 these predefined suffixes, listed in least-recent to most-recent order:
 </p>

@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
 <p>
 When you submit your ebuilds, the header should be <e>exactly</e> the same as
 the one in <path>/usr/portage/header.txt</path>. Most importantly, do not
-modify it in anyway and make sure that the <c>&#36;Header: &#36;</c> line is
+modify it in any way and make sure that the <c>&#36;Header: &#36;</c> line is
 intact.
 </p>

@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
 <tr>
   <ti><c>pkg_config</c></ti>
   <ti>
-    You use this function to setup an initial configuration for the package
+    You use this function to set up an initial configuration for the package
     after it's installed.  All paths in this function should be prefixed with
     <c>ROOT</c> which points to user-specified install root which may not
     happen to be <path>/</path>. This function is <e>only</e> executed if and