docs/54678: [patch] add PACKAGESITE to packages chapter

[Josef El-Rayes]

>Number:         54678
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] add PACKAGESITE to packages chapter
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 20 16:00:32 PDT 2003
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Josef El-Rayes
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD daemon.li 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #7: Thu Jul 3 21:46:26 CEST 2003 shammer at daemon.li:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386


	
>Description:
	the mentioning of PACKAGESITE was missing in packages chapter, imho
very handy when you want to use mirrors.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	

--- chapter.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- chapter.sgml.orig	Sun Jul 20 19:05:11 2003
+++ chapter.sgml	Sun Jul 20 19:20:45 2003
@@ -351,8 +351,11 @@
           url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/"></ulink>,
           or on the FreeBSD CD-ROM distribution.  Every CD on the
           FreeBSD 4-CD set (and the PowerPak, etc.) contains packages
-          in the <filename>/packages</filename> directory.  The layout
-          of the packages is similar to that of the
+          in the <filename>/packages</filename> directory.
+			 If you want to specify another FreeBSD Packages Mirror, instead of
+			using the main distribution site, you have to set
+			<envar>PACKAGESITE</envar> accordingly. 
+ 			The layout of the packages is similar to that of the
           <filename>/usr/ports</filename> tree.  Each category has its
           own directory, and every package can be found within the
           <filename>All</filename> directory.
--- chapter.sgml.diff ends here ---


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