From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 11 07:21:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D2FFB2E for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from boomer.ukrhub.net (boomer.ukrhub.net [94.125.121.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B4B1098 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:21:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by boomer.ukrhub.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id 7484624DC30; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:20:53 +0200 (EET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on boomer.ukrhub.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from gamma.ukrhub.net (unknown [10.100.1.91]) by boomer.ukrhub.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451E424DC1F; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:20:48 +0200 (EET) Received: from gamma.ukrhub.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gamma.ukrhub.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s1B7KlD8054452 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:20:48 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ds@ukrhub.net) Received: (from ds@localhost) by gamma.ukrhub.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s1B7KllK054451; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:20:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ds@ukrhub.net) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:20:47 +0200 From: Taras Korenko To: Jason Helfman Subject: Re: Possible typo on doc/handbook/ports-using.html ? Message-ID: <20140211072047.GA54201@gamma.ukrhub.net> References: <8D0F4110F6167E7-2378-15694@webmail-d224.sysops.aol.com> <9F71B2D3-E4A6-439B-BFFC-242303A0DE12@helfman.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9F71B2D3-E4A6-439B-BFFC-242303A0DE12@helfman.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Taras Korenko List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:21:01 -0000 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:54:49PM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Lampros Chaidas wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I was just reading through the documentation for getting the ports collection with the subversion method and noticed the following in "Procedure 5.2. Subversion Method" - the link is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html > > > > "If the ports tree is not available, Subversion can be installed as a package: > > # pkg install subversion > > If pkgng is being used to manage packages, Subversion can be installed with it instead: > > # pkg install subversion" > > > > It looks like it's the same command in both situations - this looks redundant to me, is there a difference here that maybe I'm missing? > > > > Thanks, > > - Lampros > > Both statements are true, however I believe this can be reworded and condensed. > > I'll put together a patch. That was introduced in [1] as an attempt to clear texts from mentioning our old package management system (aka pkg_install). 1. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml?r1=43693&r2=43747 -- WBR, Taras Korenko