svn commit: r39483 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Author: eadler (src,ports committer)
> Date: Fri Aug 31 23:18:28 2012
> New Revision: 39483
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39483
>
> Log:
>  Prefer linking to the handbook instead of maintaining instructions in
>  two different places. In addition the linked instructions are out of
>  dated.
>
>  Don't give bad advice of downloading a single port at a time. This
>  rarely works and is unsupported.
>
>  Approved by:	brd
>
> Modified:
>  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml	Fri Aug 31 22:37:31 2012	(r39482)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml	Fri Aug 31 23:18:28 2012	(r39483)
> @@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ be committed.
> <P>Each ``port'' listed here
> contains any patches necessary to make the original application source
> code compile and run on FreeBSD.  Installing an application is as
> -simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing
> +simple as typing
> <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make"><TT>make</TT></A>

Surely 'make install' would be needed in order to actually install the 
application...

-Ben Kaduk

> -in the port directory.  However, the most convenient (and common) method
> -is to download the framework for the entire list of ports by installing the
> +in the port directory.  If you
> +download the framework for the entire list of ports by installing the
> <!--<A HREF="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz">-->
> -<A HREF="installing.html">
> -entire ports hierarchy</A> at FreeBSD installation time, and then have
> +<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html#PORTS-TREE">
> +ports hierarchy</A>, you can have
> thousands of applications right at your fingertips.
> </P>
>
>