Attachment 219747 Details for Bug 251195 – svn diff of en_US.ISO8859-1/handbook/ports/chapter.xml

[patch] svn diff of en_US.ISO8859-1/handbook/ports/chapter.xml

handbook-ports-chapter.diff (text/plain), 2.26 KB, created by Fred on 2020-11-16 23:20:37 UTC

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>Index: chapter.xml
>===================================================================
>--- chapter.xml	(revision 54689)
>+++ chapter.xml	(working copy)
>@@ -837,6 +837,17 @@
>     <para>By default, the Ports Collection itself is stored as a
>       subdirectory of <filename>/usr/ports</filename>.</para>
> 
>+    <para>Before installing and using the ports collection, please
>+      be aware that it is generally ill-advised to use ports in
>+      conjunction with pkg to install software.  pkg, by default,
>+      tracks quarterly branch-releases of the ports tree and not HEAD.
>+      Dependencies could be different for a port in HEAD compared to
>+      its counterpart in a quarterly branch release and this could
>+      result in conflicts between dependencies installed by pkg and
>+      those from the ports collection.  If ports and pkg must be used
>+      in conjunction, then be sure that your ports collection and pkg
>+      are on the same branch release of the ports tree.</para>
>+
>     <para>Before an application can be compiled using a port, the
>       Ports Collection must first be installed.  If it was not
>       installed during the installation of &os;, use one of the
>@@ -917,12 +928,19 @@
>       </step>
> 
>       <step>
>-	<para>Check out a copy of the ports tree:</para>
>+	<para>Check out a copy of the HEAD branch of the ports
>+	  tree:</para>
> 
> 	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
>       </step>
> 
>       <step>
>+	<para>Or, check out a copy of a quartlery branch:</para>
>+
>+	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/branches/2020Q3 /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
>+      </step>
>+
>+      <step>
> 	<para>As needed, update <filename>/usr/ports</filename> after
> 	  the initial <application>Subversion</application>
> 	  checkout:</para>
>@@ -929,6 +947,13 @@
> 
> 	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn update /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
>       </step>
>+
>+      <step>
>+	<para>As needed, switch <filename>/usr/ports</filename> to a
>+	  different quarterly branch:</para>
>+
>+	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn switch http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/branches/2020Q4/ /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
>+      </step>
>     </procedure>
> 
>     <para>The Ports Collection contains directories

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