Attachment 58874 Details for Bug 88646 – chapter.sgml-portmanager.diff

[patch] chapter.sgml-portmanager.diff

chapter.sgml-portmanager.diff (text/plain), 2.68 KB, created by Michael C.Shultz on 2005-11-08 07:20:15 UTC

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Created: 2005-11-08 07:20:15 UTC

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>--- ports/chapter.sgml	Mon Oct  3 11:58:36 2005
>+++ ports/chapter.sgml-portmanager	Mon Nov  7 22:22:04 2005
>@@ -1160,9 +1160,6 @@
>       <title>Upgrading Ports</title>
> 
>       <indexterm>
>-	<primary>portupgrade</primary>
>-      </indexterm>
>-      <indexterm>
> 	<primary>ports</primary>
> 	<secondary>upgrading</secondary>
>       </indexterm>
>@@ -1174,6 +1171,13 @@
> 	  encounter and need to perform when updating a port.</para>
>       </note>
> 
>+        <sect3 id="portupgrade">
>+	  <title>portupgrade</title>
>+          <indexterm>
>+	   <primary>portupgrade</primary>
>+          </indexterm>
>+
>+
>       <para>Keeping your ports up to date can be a tedious job.  For
> 	instance, to upgrade a port you would go to the ports
> 	directory, build the port, deinstall the old port, install the
>@@ -1233,6 +1237,32 @@
>       <para>Other utilities exist which will do this, check out the
> 	<filename>ports/sysutils</filename> directory and see what you
> 	come up with.</para>
>+      </sect3>
>+      <sect3 id="portmanager">
>+          <title>portmanager</title>
>+            <indexterm><primary>portmanager</primary></indexterm>
>+            <indexterm><primary>ports</primary><secondary>upgrading</secondary></indexterm>
>+	  <para>After updating your ports tree installed ports may easily be
>+		brought up to date with <filename
>+		role="package">sysutils/portmanager</filename>. 
>+		Installation and setup from the standard ports tree location is simple:</para>
>+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager</userinput></screen>
>+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
>+	  <para>Once installed the only command needed to update all installed ports is:</para>
>+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>portmanager -u</userinput></screen>
>+	  <para>Portmanager can also add new ports to your installed software
>+		collection, when used to install ports it will correctly update
>+		or add any dependencies prior to building and installing the new
>+		port. example:</para>
>+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>portmanager x11/gnome2</userinput></screen>
>+           <para>will first insure all dependencies of x11/gnome2 are installed and up to date,
>+		then x11/gnome2 will be installed.</para>
>+           <para>Fixing a problem port when it is dependency related is easy, example:</para>
>+           <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>portmanager sysutils/problemPort -f</userinput></screen>
>+           <para>all of sysutils/problemPort's dependencies will be rebuilt in a logical order
>+		then rebuilding of sysutils/problemPort is attempted.</para>
>+           <para>For further information see man portmanager(1)</para>
>+       </sect3>
>     </sect2>
>   </sect1>

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