docs/180289: [patch] suggest bsdinstall and portsnap for installation methods of ports collection
Jason Helfman
jgh at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 5 07:00:01 UTC 2013
>Number: 180289
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] suggest bsdinstall and portsnap for installation methods of ports collection
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 05 07:00:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Helfman
>Release: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD freefall.freebsd.org 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r252008: Wed Jun 19 21:39:58 UTC 2013 peter at freefall.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEFALL amd64
>Description:
bsdinstall and portsnap are both viable solutions for installing the Ports Collection.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/installing.xml
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--- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/installing.xml (revision 42154)
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/installing.xml (working copy)
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@
<hr/>
-<p>If you are installing FreeBSD from CD-ROM or an ftp site, the
+<p>If you are installing &os; from CD-ROM or an ftp site, the
<a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall"><tt>sysinstall</tt></a>
+ or <a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall"><tt>bsdinstall</tt><a>
application will allow you to install the Ports Collection directly.</p>
<p>However, if you are not installing using that method, you may
@@ -28,5 +29,9 @@
download the gzipped tarball</a> for the entire ports hierarchy. The
size of the file is &ports.size;.</p>
+<p>In addition to the aforementioned methods, you may use the
+ <a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsnap"><tt>portsnap</tt></a>
+ utility to install the latest hourly built Ports Collection snapshot.</p>
+
</body>
</html>
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