Possible typo on doc/handbook/ports-using.html ?

Jason Helfman jgh at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 12 19:40:30 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Taras Korenko <ds at ukrhub.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:54:49PM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Lampros Chaidas <lamproschaidas at aol.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I was just reading through the documentation for getting the ports
> collection with the subversion method and noticed the following in
> "Procedure 5.2. Subversion Method" - the link is
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
> > >
> > > "If the ports tree is not available,      Subversion can be installed
> as      a package:
> > > # pkg install subversion
> > > If pkgng is being used to      manage packages, Subversion can      be
> installed with it instead:
> > > # pkg install subversion"
> > >
> > > It looks like it's the same command in both situations - this looks
> redundant to me, is there a difference here that maybe I'm missing?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > - Lampros
> >
> > Both statements are true, however I believe this can be reworded and
> condensed.
> >
> > I'll put together a patch.
>
>   That was introduced in [1] as an attempt to clear texts from mentioning
> our old package management system (aka pkg_install).
>
> 1.
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml?r1=43693&r2=43747
> --
>   WBR, Taras Korenko
>

I've just committed a fix for this. Thanks for the report!

-jgh

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