In section 4.7:

- add missing words and filename tags
- remove punctuation from links
- use man entities where needed
- add application tags with right capitalization
- correct some typos

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&prompt.root;</screen>
<para>As you can see, the only difference is the line that tells
you where the system is fetching the port from.</para>
you where the system is fetching the port distfile from.</para>
<para>The ports system uses &man.fetch.1; to download the files,
which honours various environment variables, including
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<para>The following sections cover some of the more frequently asked
questions about the ports collection and some basic troubleshooting
techniques, and what do to if a <link
linkend="ports-broken">port is broken.</link></para>
linkend="ports-broken">port is broken</link>.</para>
<sect2 id="ports-questions">
<title>Some Questions and Answers</title>
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<quote>add these two lines after line 468</quote>, or
<quote>change line 197 to this</quote>. They are also known
as diffs because they are generated by the
<application>diff</application> program.</para>
&man.diff.1; program.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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<para>You can see what files are in them, or even extract
them yourself by using the standard Unix
<command>tar</command> program, which comes with the base
&man.tar.1; program, which comes with the base
FreeBSD system, like this:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>tar tvzf foobar.tar.gz</userinput>
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<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>I did what you said for compiling ports from a CDROM and
it worked great until I tried to install the kermit
it worked great until I tried to install the <application>Kermit</application>
port.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make install</userinput>
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<answer>
<para>As explained in the <link
linkend="ports-cd">compiling ports from CDROM</link>
linkend="ports-cd">installing ports from CDROM</link>
section, some ports cannot be put on the CDROM set
due to licensing restrictions. Kermit is an example of
that. The licensing terms for kermit do not allow us to put
due to licensing restrictions. <application>Kermit</application> is an example of
that. The licensing terms for <application>Kermit</application> do not allow us to put
the tarball for it on the CDROM, so you will have to fetch
it by hand&mdash;sorry!</para>
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<para>or by editing <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename>, but
unfortunately not all ports respect this. The surest way
is to do <command>make configure</command>, then go into
the source directory and inspect the Makefiles by hand, but
the source directory and inspect the <filename>Makefile</filename>s by hand, but
this can get tedious if the source has lots of
sub-directories, each with their own Makefiles.</para>
sub-directories, each with their own <filename>Makefile</filename>s.</para>
<para>The default FreeBSD compiler options are quite conservative,
so if you have not changed them you should not have any
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grizzle-6.5 - the combined piano tutorial, LOGO interpreter and shoot 'em up
arcade game.</screen>
<para>The version number can also be found using the
<para>The version number can be found either by using the
<command>pkg_info</command> or by typing:
<command>ls /var/db/pkg</command></para>
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</question>
<answer>
<para>Yes, if you have installed the program and are fairly
<para>Yes, if you have installed a program and are fairly
certain you will not need the source again, there is no
point in keeping it hanging around. The surest way to do
this is:</para>
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<para>At work, we are using <literal>frobble</literal>, which
is in your ports collection, but we have altered it quite a
bit to get it to do what we need. Is there any way of making
our own packages, so we can distribute it more easily around
our own package, so we can distribute it more easily around
our sites?</para>
</question>
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gripe&mdash;<emphasis>by email only!</emphasis> Send
<para>Gripe&mdash;<emphasis>by email only</emphasis>! Send
email to the maintainer of the port first. Type <command>make
maintainer</command> or read the <filename>Makefile</filename>
to find the maintainer's email address. Remember to include
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<filename>Makefile</filename>) and the output leading up to the
error when you email the maintainer. If you do not get a
response from the maintainer, you can use
<command>send-pr</command> to submit a bug report.</para>
&man.send-pr.1; to submit a bug report.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Grab the package from an ftp site near you. The
<para>Grab the package from an FTP site near you. The
<quote>master</quote> package collection is on <hostid
role="fqdn">ftp.FreeBSD.org</hostid> in the <ulink
URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/">packages
directory</ulink>, but be sure to check your local mirror
<emphasis>first!</emphasis> These are more likely to work
<emphasis>first</emphasis>! These are more likely to work
than trying to compile from source and are a lot faster as
well. Use the &man.pkg.add.1; program to install the package
on your system.</para>