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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:34:24 -0700
From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc: doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: getting the ports tree
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  This information really belongs in Chapter 4 "Ports and Packages" of
the Handbook.  That whole chapter could use a little work actually,
and you'd be the perfect guy to help improve it!  Is there any chance
you can supply a patch to this chapter that adds the information you
desire?  Reorganizing some of the rest of the chapter, or turning the
informal Q/A at the end into more formal text wouldn't hurt either. ;)

       - Murray

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:29:09PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> IIRC, the handbook at one time or another contained instructions 
> for installing the ports tree.  Newbies need that.  I looked tonight
> for those instructions.  I failed to find them at the website under
> handbook/ports and under /ports.  I hope I'm going blind because
> a step by step process would be nice to refer users to.  Are they
> there?
> 
> FWIW: I remember two methods:
> 
> 1 - cvsup
> 
> 2 - /stand/sysinstall

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