diff --git a/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml b/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml
index 5bc22ddb20..849e4581c4 100644
--- a/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml
+++ b/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
 <!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
-<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml,v 1.101 2005/10/04 20:06:58 hrs Exp $">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/faq2.sgml,v 1.102 2005/11/07 00:22:35 marcus Exp $">
 <!ENTITY title "FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME &gnomever; FAQ">
 <!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../../includes.navdevelopers.sgml"> %navincludes;
 <!ENTITY % gnomeincludes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %gnomeincludes;
@@ -92,9 +92,11 @@
 	      versions of FreeBSD are also available from the
 	      <a href="#q21">GNOME Tinderbox</a>.</p>
 
-	    <p>To build and install GNOME &gnomever; from ports, you should first
-	      <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html">
-	        cvsup</a> the latest ports tree.  Then:</p>
+	    <p>To build GNOME &gnomever;, you must first obtain the
+	      latest ports tree skeleton.  This is most easily
+	      accomplished with <tt>portsnap(8)</tt> or <a
+	      href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html">cvsup</a>.
+	      Then:</p>
 
 	    <pre>
 # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
diff --git a/en/gnome/docs/faq212.sgml b/en/gnome/docs/faq212.sgml
index f0e11f42cf..7948a5ee29 100644
--- a/en/gnome/docs/faq212.sgml
+++ b/en/gnome/docs/faq212.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
 <!ENTITY base CDATA "../../">
-<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/faq212.sgml,v 1.2 2005/11/05 07:22:29 marcus Exp $">
 <!ENTITY title "FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME &gnomever; Upgrading FAQ">
 <!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../../includes.navdevelopers.sgml"> %navincludes;
 <!ENTITY % gnomeincludes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %gnomeincludes;
@@ -53,8 +53,12 @@
       <p>The simple answer is this:</p>
 
       <ol>
-        <li><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup
-	  your ports tree</a>.
+	<li>To build GNOME &gnomever;, you need to obtain the latest
+	  ports tree skeleton.  This is most easily accomplished with
+	  <tt>portsnap(8)</tt> or <a
+	  href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html">cvsup</a>CVSup.  Simply obtain the latest ports tree, and you are
+	  ready to go.  After you have obtained the latest ports tree,
+	  <em>do not</em> run a typical <tt>portupgrade(1)</tt>.
 	<li>Download the FreeBSD GNOME Project's <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh">upgrade
 	  script</a>.
 	<li>Run the script as <tt>root</tt>.  Read a good-sized book.
