Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 16:44:17 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Marshall Brannan" <jmbrannan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Typo in FreeBSD manual Message-ID: <47d0403c0709011344h35033f41k8e5d4ac5b219a376@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <622d610c0709011230i34f918e8t3e42e3208eada6fa@mail.gmail.com> References: <622d610c0709011230i34f918e8t3e42e3208eada6fa@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/1/07, Marshall Brannan <jmbrannan@gmail.com> wrote: > I found the following typo in the FreeBSD manual under section 4.5.4.2: > > ----------------------------------------------------- > To avoid using ports, specify -PP. > > # portupgrade -PR gnome2 > ----------------------------------------------------- > > "To avoid using ports, specify -PP." should be changed to: "To > avoid using ports, specify -PR." > > I hope this is the right place to post a message like this! > Thanks for noticing the discrepancy, but -PP is actually the correct way to avoid using ports -- -P tries to use packages if they are available (falling back to ports), but -PP bails if there are no packages. Of course, the command-line given there should be changed to use -PP instead. I have been told in the past that it is advised to file a PR for something like this, even though it seems a trivial change, so it doesn't get lost: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr Thanks, Ben Kaduk
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