From 39adab85e5976041c8abd9866917092134edef05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Rhodes Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:41:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Final touches: Update the synopsis. Add a man xref to the distfile description. Add a 'dealing with imake' section. Fix 2 spelling errors while I'm here. --- .../books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml | 28 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml index b73ccb7a80..1b19322805 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ How to remove previously installed packages or ports. + + How to override default the default values that the ports + collection uses. + + + How to upgrade your ports. + @@ -317,7 +324,7 @@ local: lsof-4.56.4.tgz remote: lsof-4.56.4.tgz The example above would download the correct package and add it without any further user intervention. &man.pkg.add.1; uses - &man.fetch.3; to download the files, which honours various + &man.fetch.3; to download the files, which honors various environment variables, including FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PROXY, and FTP_PASSWORD. You may need to set one or more of these if you are behind a firewall, @@ -597,7 +604,7 @@ docbook = A distinfo file. This file contains information about the files that must be downloaded to build the port and their checksums, to verify that files have not been - corrupted during the download. + corrupted during the download using &man.md5.1;. @@ -873,7 +880,7 @@ Receiving lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz (439860 bytes): 100% you where the system is fetching the port distfile from. The ports system uses &man.fetch.1; to download the files, - which honours various environment variables, including + which honors various environment variables, including FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PROXY, and FTP_PASSWORD. You may need to set one or more of these if you are behind a firewall, or need to use an FTP/HTTP @@ -939,6 +946,21 @@ Receiving lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz (439860 bytes): 100% will combine the two (it is too long to completely write on this page, but it should give you the general idea). + Alternatively, these variables can also be set + as part of your environment. Read the manual page for your shell for + instructions on doing so. + + + + Dealing with <command>imake</command> + + Some ports that use imake (a part of the X Windows + System) do not work well with PREFIX, and will insist on + installing under /usr/X11R6. Similarly, some Perl ports + ignore PREFIX and install in the Perl tree. Making these + ports respect PREFIX is a difficult or impossible + job. +