svn commit: r41663 - projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 18 18:24:12 UTC 2013
Author: trhodes
Date: Sat May 18 18:24:11 2013
New Revision: 41663
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41663
Log:
Reword to avoid "you" in the ports after install
section (which is where I performed work in the
previous commit).
Modified:
projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Sat May 18 18:09:00 2013 (r41662)
+++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Sat May 18 18:24:11 2013 (r41663)
@@ -1800,18 +1800,18 @@ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Use &man.pkg.info.1; to find out which files were
- installed, and where. For example, if you have just
- installed FooPackage version 1.0.0, then this command</para>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.info.1; will print all installed
+ files and their location. For example, if the FooPackage
+ version 1.0.0 was just installed, then the following
+ command will show all the files installed with the
+ package.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_info -L <replaceable>foopackage-1.0.0</replaceable> | less</userinput></screen>
- <para>will show all the files installed by the package. Pay
- special attention to files located in
- <filename>man/</filename>, which will be manual pages,
- <filename>etc/</filename>, which will be configuration
- files, and <filename>doc/</filename>, which will be more
- comprehensive documentation.</para>
+ <para>Configuration files are always installed in the
+ <filename role="directory">/usr/local/etc</filename>
+ and should definitely be consulted before attempting
+ to use the new application.</para>
<para>To determine which version of the application was
installed:</para>
@@ -1825,17 +1825,18 @@ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Once you have identified where the application's manual
- pages have been installed, review them using &man.man.1;.
- Review the sample configuration files and any additional
- documentation that may have been provided.</para>
+ <para>These commands will also show the names of any manual
+ pages installed with the application. This additional
+ documentation will now be available to the &man.man.1;
+ command.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>If the application has a web site, check it for
- additional documentation, frequently asked questions, and so
- forth. If you are not sure of the web site address it may
- be listed in the output from</para>
+ <para>If the application has a web site, consult it for
+ additional documentation, frequently asked questions, or
+ a forum. If the website is unknown, the following command
+ will be useful to print out this information if it's
+ available.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_info <replaceable>foopackage-1.0.0</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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