docs/180289: [patch] suggest bsdinstall and portsnap for installation methods of ports collection

Jason Helfman jgh at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 5 07:00:01 UTC 2013


>Number:         180289
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] suggest bsdinstall and portsnap for installation methods of ports collection
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 05 07:00:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason Helfman
>Release:        FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD freefall.freebsd.org 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r252008: Wed Jun 19 21:39:58 UTC 2013 peter at freefall.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEFALL amd64


	
>Description:
bsdinstall and portsnap are both viable solutions for installing the Ports Collection.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/installing.xml
===================================================================
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/installing.xml	(revision 42154)
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/installing.xml	(working copy)
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@
 
 <hr/>
 
-<p>If you are installing FreeBSD from CD-ROM or an ftp site, the
+<p>If you are installing &os; from CD-ROM or an ftp site, the
   <a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall"><tt>sysinstall</tt></a>
+  or <a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall"><tt>bsdinstall</tt><a>
   application will allow you to install the Ports Collection directly.</p>
 
 <p>However, if you are not installing using that method, you may
@@ -28,5 +29,9 @@
   download the gzipped tarball</a> for the entire ports hierarchy.  The
   size of the file is &ports.size;.</p>
 
+<p>In addition to the aforementioned methods, you may use the
+  <a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsnap"><tt>portsnap</tt></a>
+  utility to install the latest hourly built Ports Collection snapshot.</p>
+
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