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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2001 16:30:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/32278: additional info for ports section
Message-ID:  <200111260030.fAQ0U2759549@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR docs/32278; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/32278: additional info for ports section
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:24:27 -0500

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 On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:12:17AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 > I believe the proper markup for distfile here would be quote, not
 > literal.
 
 Quite possibly.  <quote> is not in the FDP, however.  <literal> seemed
 the best match of what's listed.
 
 I'm attaching a patch with this change.  -doc masters, use whichever
 one is correct.  If it's <quote>, then we should probably have <quote>
 added to the SGML section of the FDP.
 
 ==ml
 
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 Michael Lucas
 mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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 *** en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml-dist	Tue Nov 20 21:19:43 2001
 --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml	Sun Nov 25 19:04:04 2001
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 *** 671,678 ****
             ports.</para>
         </note>
   
 !       <para>Now that you have found a port you would like to install, you
 !         are ready to do the actual installation.</para>
   
         <sect3 id="ports-cd">
           <title>Installing Ports from a CDROM</title>
 --- 671,687 ----
             ports.</para>
         </note>
   
 !       <para>Now that you have found a port you would like to install,
 !         you are ready to do the actual installation.  The port
 !         includes instructions on how to build source code, but no
 !         actual source code.  You can get the source code from a CDROM
 !         or from the Internet.  Source code is distributed in whatever
 !         manner the software author desires.  Frequently this is a
 !         tarred and gzipped file, but it might be compressed with some
 !         other tool or even uncompressed.  The program source code,
 !         whatever form it comes in, is called a
 !         <quote>distfile</quote>.  You can get the distfile from a
 !         CDROM or from the Internet.</para>
   
         <sect3 id="ports-cd">
           <title>Installing Ports from a CDROM</title>
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 *** 681,696 ****
             <primary>ports</primary>
             <secondary>installing from CDROM</secondary>
           </indexterm>
 !         <para>As you may have guessed from the title, everything
 ! 	  described in this section assumes you have a FreeBSD CDROM set.
 ! 	  If you do not, you can order one from the <ulink
 ! 	  url="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</ulink>.</para>
 ! 
 !         <para>Assuming that your FreeBSD CDROM is in the drive and is
 ! 	  mounted on <filename>/cdrom</filename> (and the mount point
 ! 	  <emphasis>must</emphasis> be <filename>/cdrom</filename>),
 ! 	  you are ready to install the port.  To begin, change 
 ! 	  to the directory where the port you want to install lives:</para>
   
           <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof</userinput></screen>
   
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             <primary>ports</primary>
             <secondary>installing from CDROM</secondary>
           </indexterm>
 !         <para>The FreeBSD Project's official CDROM images no longer
 ! 	  includes distfiles.  They take up a lot of room that is
 ! 	  better used by precompiled packages.  CDROM products such as
 ! 	  the FreeBSD Power Pak do include distfiles, and you can
 ! 	  order these sets from a vendor such as the <ulink
 ! 	  url="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</ulink>.
 ! 	  This section assumes you have such a FreeBSD CDROM
 ! 	  set.</para>
 ! 
 !         <para>Place your FreeBSD CDROM in the drive.  Mount it on
 ! 	  <filename>/cdrom</filename>.  (If you use a different mount
 ! 	  point, the install will not work.)  To begin, change to the
 ! 	  directory for the port you want to install:</para>
   
           <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof</userinput></screen>
   
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           <para>Installing a port from the Internet is done exactly the same
   	  way as it would be if you were installing from a CDROM.  The
 ! 	  only difference between the two is that the program's source
 ! 	  code is downloaded from the Internet instead of pulled from the
   	  CDROM.</para>
   
           <para>The steps involved are identical:</para>
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           <para>Installing a port from the Internet is done exactly the same
   	  way as it would be if you were installing from a CDROM.  The
 ! 	  only difference between the two is that the port distfile
 ! 	  is downloaded from the Internet instead of pulled from the
   	  CDROM.</para>
   
           <para>The steps involved are identical:</para>
 
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