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diff --git a/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml b/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml index 6bfa9d1eed..2bf0d18010 100644 --- a/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml +++ b/system/doc/system_principles/versions.xml @@ -79,18 +79,18 @@ </section> <section><title>OTP Versions Table</title> - <p>The text file <c><OTP source root>/otp_versions.table</c> - part of the source code contains information about all OTP versions + <p>The text file <c><OTP source root>/otp_versions.table</c> that + is part of the source code contains information about all OTP versions from OTP 17.0 up to current OTP version. Each line contains information - about application versions part of a specific OTP version, and is on - the format:</p> + about application versions that are part of a specific OTP version, and + is on the format:</p> <pre> -<OtpVersion> : <ChangedAppVersions> # <UnchangedAppVersions> +<OtpVersion> : <ChangedAppVersions> # <UnchangedAppVersions> : </pre> <p><c><OtpVersion></c> is on the format <c>OTP-<VSN></c>, i.e., the same as the git tag used to identify the source. <c><ChangedAppVersions></c> and <c><UnchangedAppVersions></c> - are white space separated lists of application versions on the + are space separated lists of application versions on the format <c><application>-<vsn></c>. <c><ChangedAppVersions></c> corresponds to changed applications with new version numbers in this OTP version, and @@ -99,14 +99,15 @@ not at the same time. If <ChangedAppVersions> is empty, no changes has been made that change the build result of any application. This could for example be a pure bug fix of the build system. The order of lines - is undefined.</p> + is undefined. All white space characters in this file are either space + (character 32) or line-break (character 10).</p> <p>Using ordinary UNIX tools like <c>sed</c> and <c>grep</c> one can easily find answers to various questions like:</p> <taglist> <tag>Which OTP versions are <c>kernel-3.0</c> part of?</tag> - <item><p><c> $ grep 'kernel-3\.0' otp_versions.table</c></p></item> + <item><p><c> $ grep ' kernel-3\.0 ' otp_versions.table</c></p></item> <tag>In which OTP version was <c>kernel-3.0</c> introduced?</tag> - <item><p><c> $ sed 's/#.*//;/kernel-3\.0/!d' otp_versions.table</c></p></item> + <item><p><c> $ sed 's/#.*//;/ kernel-3\.0 /!d' otp_versions.table</c></p></item> </taglist> <p>The above commands give a bit more information than the exact answers, but adequate information when manually searching for answers to these |