Merge branch 't/crypt_cleanups'

[paraslash.git] / web / manual.m4

diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4
index 14feb5739c771bd2ee16e516b0d36d389d1b454f..30fe922f63bd6fab3ffd86ca4f2653dc0423bf1c 100644 (file)
--- a/web/manual.m4
+++ b/web/manual.m4
@@ -280,7 +280,11 @@ might need to tell the configure script where to find them. Try
        ./configure --help
 
 to see a list of options. If the paraslash package was compiled
-successfully, execute as root,
+successfully, execute (optionally)
+
+       make test
+
+to run the paraslash test suite. If all tests pass, execute as root
 
        make install
 
@@ -1500,9 +1504,9 @@ Forward error correction
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 As already mentioned REFERENCE(Streaming protocols, earlier),
-paraslash uses forward error correction (FEC) for the unreliable
-UDP transport. FEC is a technique which was invented already in
-1960 by Reed and Solomon and which is widely used for the parity
+paraslash uses forward error correction (FEC) for the unreliable UDP
+and DCCP transports. FEC is a technique which was invented already
+in 1960 by Reed and Solomon and which is widely used for the parity
 calculations of storage devices (RAID arrays). It is based on the
 algebraic concept of finite fields, today called Galois fields, in
 honour of the mathematician Galois (1811-1832). The FEC implementation
@@ -1866,6 +1870,11 @@ have been merged into "next" are usually not rebased, and you can find
 the tip of topic branches you are interested in from the output of
 "git log next"). You should be able to safely build on top of them.
 
+However, at times "next" will be rebuilt from the tip of "master" to
+get rid of merge commits that will never be in "master. The commit
+that replaces "next" will usually have the identical tree, but it
+will have different ancestry from the tip of "master".
+
 The "pu" (proposed updates) branch bundles the remainder of the
 topic branches.  The "pu" branch, and topic branches that are only in
 "pu", are subject to rebasing in general.  By the above definition