Comment 6 for bug 65244

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 65244] Re: ulimits not set according to /etc/security/limits.conf for root - update documentation

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:12:42PM -0000, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> I also discovered (after much reading of Makefile.in and configure
> scripts) how to build the docs "properly"! If you sudo apt-get install
> ldp-docbook-xsl (and all its recommended hangers-on), when you then run
> ./configure the Makefiles now include the Make.xml.rules file. At this
> point you can do (this is my example, but the principle applies to many
> subdirs)

> cd modules/pam_limits
> rm limits.conf.5 pam_limits.8 README
> make limits.conf.5 pam_limits.8 README

> and the docs get regenerated :-)

Ah, that seems perfectly reasonable, wonder why I didn't notice that. :)

> bzr: Hmm. I know cvs and svn pretty well, but have so far managed to
> avoid all these new-fangled distributed VCSes <grin>... maybe I need to
> learn? Is there a "bzr for MOTUs" type of document around somewhere to
> get me started?

For this, I think you want <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BzrContributorHowto>.

> Anyway, I'll try to get a fresh debdiff with the single 027 patch file
> and the updated documentation files in a few hours and upload it here.

Thanks, I've applied this to the bzr branch now.

Cheers,
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