Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 16:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/32278: additional info for ports section Message-ID: <200111260030.fAQ0U2759549@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/32278; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/32278: additional info for ports section Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:24:27 -0500 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:12:17AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I believe the proper markup for distfile here would be quote, not > literal. Quite possibly. <quote> is not in the FDP, however. <literal> seemed the best match of what's listed. I'm attaching a patch with this change. -doc masters, use whichever one is correct. If it's <quote>, then we should probably have <quote> added to the SGML section of the FDP. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=ports-cd *** en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml-dist Tue Nov 20 21:19:43 2001 --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml Sun Nov 25 19:04:04 2001 *************** *** 671,678 **** ports.</para> </note> ! <para>Now that you have found a port you would like to install, you ! are ready to do the actual installation.</para> <sect3 id="ports-cd"> <title>Installing Ports from a CDROM</title> --- 671,687 ---- ports.</para> </note> ! <para>Now that you have found a port you would like to install, ! you are ready to do the actual installation. The port ! includes instructions on how to build source code, but no ! actual source code. You can get the source code from a CDROM ! or from the Internet. Source code is distributed in whatever ! manner the software author desires. Frequently this is a ! tarred and gzipped file, but it might be compressed with some ! other tool or even uncompressed. The program source code, ! whatever form it comes in, is called a ! <quote>distfile</quote>. You can get the distfile from a ! CDROM or from the Internet.</para> <sect3 id="ports-cd"> <title>Installing Ports from a CDROM</title> *************** *** 681,696 **** <primary>ports</primary> <secondary>installing from CDROM</secondary> </indexterm> ! <para>As you may have guessed from the title, everything ! described in this section assumes you have a FreeBSD CDROM set. ! If you do not, you can order one from the <ulink ! url="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</ulink>.</para> ! ! <para>Assuming that your FreeBSD CDROM is in the drive and is ! mounted on <filename>/cdrom</filename> (and the mount point ! <emphasis>must</emphasis> be <filename>/cdrom</filename>), ! you are ready to install the port. To begin, change ! to the directory where the port you want to install lives:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof</userinput></screen> --- 690,708 ---- <primary>ports</primary> <secondary>installing from CDROM</secondary> </indexterm> ! <para>The FreeBSD Project's official CDROM images no longer ! includes distfiles. They take up a lot of room that is ! better used by precompiled packages. CDROM products such as ! the FreeBSD Power Pak do include distfiles, and you can ! order these sets from a vendor such as the <ulink ! url="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</ulink>. ! This section assumes you have such a FreeBSD CDROM ! set.</para> ! ! <para>Place your FreeBSD CDROM in the drive. Mount it on ! <filename>/cdrom</filename>. (If you use a different mount ! point, the install will not work.) To begin, change to the ! directory for the port you want to install:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof</userinput></screen> *************** *** 776,783 **** <para>Installing a port from the Internet is done exactly the same way as it would be if you were installing from a CDROM. The ! only difference between the two is that the program's source ! code is downloaded from the Internet instead of pulled from the CDROM.</para> <para>The steps involved are identical:</para> --- 788,795 ---- <para>Installing a port from the Internet is done exactly the same way as it would be if you were installing from a CDROM. The ! only difference between the two is that the port distfile ! is downloaded from the Internet instead of pulled from the CDROM.</para> <para>The steps involved are identical:</para> --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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