svn commit: r241024 - head/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap

[Isabell Long]

Author: issyl0 (doc committer)
Date: Fri Sep 28 11:11:42 2012
New Revision: 241024
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241024

Log:
  Add a note to portsnap(8) about the behaviour of the example cron command.
  
  PR:		docs/171759
  Submitted by:	Paul Hoffman (phoffman at proper dot com)
  Approved by:	cperciva, gabor (mentor)
  MFC after:	3 days

Modified:
  head/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8

Modified: head/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8	Fri Sep 28 10:49:41 2012	(r241023)
+++ head/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8	Fri Sep 28 11:11:42 2012	(r241024)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 5, 2012
+.Dd September 28, 2012
 .Dt PORTSNAP 8
 .Os FreeBSD
 .Sh NAME
@@ -180,6 +180,23 @@ can quickly be extracted into
 If your clock is set to UTC, please pick a random time other
 than 3AM, to avoid overly imposing an uneven load on the
 server(s) hosting the snapshots.
+.Pp
+Note that running
+.Nm
+.Cm cron
+or
+.Nm
+.Cm fetch
+does not apply the changes that were received: they only only download
+them.
+To apply the changes, you must follow these commands with
+.Nm
+.Cm update .
+The
+.Nm
+.Cm update
+command is normally run by hand at a time when you are sure that
+no one is manually working in the ports tree.
 .It
 Running
 .Nm