Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:08:05 GMT From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/171759: portsnap man page is misleading Message-ID: <201209182308.q8IN85af044715@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201209182310.q8INA7b9095539@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 171759
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: portsnap man page is misleading
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 18 23:10:07 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Paul Hoffman
>Release: 8.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD hoffman.proper.com 8.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Jun 11 23:52:38 UTC 2012 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
The first tip in the portsnap man page says:
o If your clock is set to local time, adding the line
0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron
to /etc/crontab is a good way to make sure you always have an up-to-
date snapshot of the ports tree available which can quickly be
extracted into /usr/ports.
"extracted" is wrong: it should be "updated". However, it is misleading because it doesn't tell you *how* you can quickly update the ports, which is obviously what most people want to do.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
o If your clock is set to local time, adding the line
0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update
to /etc/crontab is a good way to make sure you always have an up-to-
date snapshot of the ports tree in /usr/ports.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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