From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 22 07:20:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA03437 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA03402 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fports@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA16782; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:18:09 GMT Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:18:09 GMT Message-Id: <199606221318.NAA16782@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jfieber@indiana.edu CC: fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk, doc@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from John Fieber on Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:37:59 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Revised ports entry for handbook Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> John Fieber writes: > > A *VAST* improvement! Thank you! > My one nit to pick is about the section on compiling from CD-ROM. > If you just link /usr/ports/distfiles to the cdrom, any port > which has to fetch a distfile from the net will fall flat on its > face with a not-so-helpful error. OK, I've put something in about this now (using kermit as an example). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk