svn commit: r39483 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports

[Eitan Adler]

Author: eadler (src,ports committer)
Date: Fri Aug 31 23:18:28 2012
New Revision: 39483
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39483

Log:
  Prefer linking to the handbook instead of maintaining instructions in
  two different places. In addition the linked instructions are out of
  dated.
  
  Don't give bad advice of downloading a single port at a time. This
  rarely works and is unsupported.
  
  Approved by:	brd

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml	Fri Aug 31 22:37:31 2012	(r39482)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/ports/index.sgml	Fri Aug 31 23:18:28 2012	(r39483)
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ be committed.
 <P>Each ``port'' listed here
 contains any patches necessary to make the original application source
 code compile and run on FreeBSD.  Installing an application is as
-simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing
+simple as typing
 <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make"><TT>make</TT></A>
-in the port directory.  However, the most convenient (and common) method
-is to download the framework for the entire list of ports by installing the
+in the port directory.  If you
+download the framework for the entire list of ports by installing the
 <!--<A HREF="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz">-->
-<A HREF="installing.html">
-entire ports hierarchy</A> at FreeBSD installation time, and then have
+<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html#PORTS-TREE">
+ports hierarchy</A>, you can have
 thousands of applications right at your fingertips.
 </P>