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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:05:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r40000 - projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1211151304590.2164@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201211151440.qAFEeLYN099713@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201211151440.qAFEeLYN099713@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Glen Barber wrote:

> Author: gjb
> Date: Thu Nov 15 14:40:21 2012
> New Revision: 40000
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40000
>
> Log:
>  Document the following procedures for pkgng:
>
>   - Bootstrapping and installation from ports/packages
>   - Converting the package database to pkgng format with pkg2ng
>   - Setting WITH_PKGNG and PKGSUFFIX in make.conf
>
> Modified:
>  projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
>
> Modified: projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	Thu Nov 15 13:38:34 2012	(r39999)
> +++ projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	Thu Nov 15 14:40:21 2012	(r40000)
> @@ -658,12 +658,67 @@ docbook                     =
>       <title>Getting Started with
> 	<application>pkgng</application></title>
>
> -      <para><!--
> -	- Bootstrapping
> -	- Installation from ports (for older &os releases)
> -	- Converting to pkgng (pkg2ng)
> -	- make.conf modifications
> -      --></para>
> +      <para>&os;&nbsp;9.1 and later includes a &quot;bootstrap&quot;
> +	utility for <application>pkgng</application>.  The bootstrap
> +	utility will download and install
> +	<application>pkgng</application>.</para>
> +
> +      <para>To bootstrap the system, run:</para>
> +
> +      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/usr/sbin/pkg</userinput></screen>
> +
> +      <para>For earlier &os; versions,
> +	<application>pkgng</application> must be installed from the

Isn't the actual application just "pkg"?  It's unclear to what extent we 
really need to be talking about pkgng using the string "pkgng".

-Ben



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