cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml (fwd)

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sat Jun 12 15:18:04 GMT 2004


On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:03:52 +0200
> Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com> wrote:
> 
> > You might want to mention downloading the INDEX as an alternative
> > (there is a fetchindex target in the queue)
> 
> It's not in the queue to get committed, it's already committed (and
> documented in ports(7)).

And, of course, if their ports collection is out-of-date, they
won't have this target :-)

But seriously, I don't know if this is too much detail for the FAQ.
This sounds more like fodder for a 'ports HOWTO'.  Is there such
a thing?  If so, did I just wind up volunteering again? :-)

mcl



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