svn commit: r335074 - head/share/man/man7
Edward Tomasz Napierala
trasz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 13 18:50:52 UTC 2018
Author: trasz
Date: Wed Jun 13 18:50:51 2018
New Revision: 335074
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335074
Log:
Mention that ports are used to build packages, this fact - obvious
to the developers, but much less so to users - seems to be rather
weakly documented.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Modified:
head/share/man/man7/ports.7
Modified: head/share/man/man7/ports.7
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man7/ports.7 Wed Jun 13 18:34:49 2018 (r335073)
+++ head/share/man/man7/ports.7 Wed Jun 13 18:50:51 2018 (r335074)
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ The
Ports Collection
offers a simple way for users and
administrators to install applications.
+It is also used to build the packages, to be installed using
+.Xr pkg 8 .
Each
.Em port
contains any patches necessary to make the original
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