Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:34:21 +0800 (CST) From: Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/99845: [patch] First introduce porttools to Porter's Handbook Message-ID: <20060706153421.A5D9F7E911@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Resent-Message-ID: <200607061540.k66FeE5e098227@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 99845
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] First introduce porttools to Porter's Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 06 15:40:14 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Cheng-Lung Sung
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD @ Taiwan
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #9: Thu May 11 14:31:45 CST 2006 root@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw:/home/usr.obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBSD i386
>Description:
- devel/porttools is there. But Porter's Handbook didn't mention about it.
- docs about porttools will be updated/add in the future.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: book.sgml
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RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
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diff -u -r1.728 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 6 Jul 2006 06:35:21 -0000 1.728
+++ book.sgml 6 Jul 2006 15:29:51 -0000
@@ -6777,6 +6777,22 @@
doubt, the best thing to do is ask on &a.ports;.</para>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="testing-porttools">
+ <title>Port Tools</title>
+
+ <para>The <filename role="package">devel/porttools</filename>
+ program is part of the ports collection.</para>
+
+ <para>The <command>port</command> is the front-end script,
+ it can help you simplify the testing job. Whenever you want
+ to test a new port or update a port,
+ <command>port test</command> will automate the process of
+ port testing, including <link
+ linkend="testing-portlint"><command>portlint</command></link>
+ checking. This command also detects and lists any files not
+ listed in <filename>pkg-plist</filename>.</para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="porting-prefix">
<title><makevar>PREFIX</makevar></title>
>Release-Note:
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