Attachment 79560 Details for Bug 114272 – file.diff

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>--- chapter.sgml.orig	2007-07-03 18:10:53.000000000 -0500
>+++ chapter.sgml	2007-07-03 17:13:58.000000000 -0500
>@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
>       part of the base system.  However, there is only so much one can
>       do before needing to install an additional third-party
>       application to get real work done.  FreeBSD provides two
>-      complementary technologies for installing third party software
>+      complementary technologies for installing third-party software
>       on your system: the FreeBSD Ports Collection (for installing from
>       source), and packages (for installing from pre-built binaries).
>       Either method may be used to install the
>@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
>     <title>Overview of Software Installation</title>
> 
>     <para>If you have used a &unix; system before you will know that
>-      the typical procedure for installing third party software goes
>+      the typical procedure for installing third-party software goes
>       something like this:</para>
> 
>     <procedure>
>@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
>       <quote>traditional</quote> way with FreeBSD.  However, FreeBSD
>       provides two technologies which can save you a lot of effort:
>       packages and ports.  At the time of writing, over &os.numports;
>-      third party applications have been made available in this
>+      third-party applications have been made available in this
>       way.</para>
> 
>     <para>For any given application, the FreeBSD package for that
>@@ -174,11 +174,11 @@
> 	  because they have to run on the maximum number of systems.  By
> 	  installing from the port, you can tweak the compilation options to
> 	  (for example) generate code that is specific to a Pentium
>-	  IV or Athlon processor.</para>
>+	  4 or Athlon processor.</para>
>       </listitem>
> 
>       <listitem>
>-	<para>Some applications have compile time options relating to
>+	<para>Some applications have compile-time options relating to
> 	  what they can and cannot do.  For example,
> 	  <application>Apache</application> can be configured with a
> 	  wide variety of different built-in options.  By building
>@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
> 	  whether or not you have installed an X11 server.  This sort
> 	  of rough tweaking is possible with packages, but rapidly
> 	  becomes impossible if an application has more than one or
>-	  two different compile time options.</para>
>+	  two different compile-time options.</para>
>       </listitem>
> 
>       <listitem>
>@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
>     </warning>
> 
>     <para>The remainder of this chapter will explain how to use
>-      packages and ports to install and manage third party software on
>+      packages and ports to install and manage third-party software on
>       FreeBSD.</para>
>   </sect1>
> 
>@@ -414,8 +414,8 @@
>       <para>The example above would download the correct package and
> 	add it without any further user intervention.
> 	If you want to specify an alternative &os; Packages Mirror,
>-	instead of the main distribution site, you have to set
>-	<envar>PACKAGESITE</envar> accordingly, to
>+	instead of the main distribution site, you have to set the
>+	<envar>PACKAGESITE</envar> environment variable accordingly, to
> 	override the default settings.  &man.pkg.add.1;
> 	uses &man.fetch.3; to download the files, which honors various
> 	environment variables, including
>@@ -436,8 +436,8 @@
> 	  &os.stable;.  If you run a -RELEASE version, it will grab
> 	  the version of the package that was built with your
> 	  release.  It is possible to change this behavior by
>-	  overriding the <envar>PACKAGESITE</envar> environment
>-	  variable.  For example, if you run a &os;&nbsp;5.4-RELEASE
>+	  overriding <envar>PACKAGESITE</envar>.
>+	  For example, if you run a &os;&nbsp;5.4-RELEASE
> 	  system, by default &man.pkg.add.1; will try to fetch
> 	  packages from
> 	  <literal>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/</literal>.
>@@ -553,6 +553,13 @@
>       </para>
> 
>       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_delete <replaceable>xchat-1.7.1</replaceable></userinput></screen>
>+
>+      <para>Note that &man.pkg.delete.1; requires the full package name
>+      and number; the above command would not work if
>+      <literal>xchat</literal> was given instead of
>+      <literal>xchat-1.7.1</literal>.  It is, however, easy to use
>+      &man.pkg.version.1; to find the version of the installed package.
>+      </para>
>     </sect2>
> 
>     <sect2>
>@@ -817,9 +824,10 @@
> 	<listitem>
> 	  <para>A <filename>distinfo</filename> file.  This file
> 	    contains information about the files that must be
>-	    downloaded to build the port and their checksums, to
>+	    downloaded to build the port, and their checksums
>+	    (using &man.md5.1; and &man.sha256.1;), to
> 	    verify that files have not been corrupted during the
>-	    download using &man.md5.1;.</para>
>+	    download.</para>
> 	</listitem>
> 	
> 	<listitem>
>@@ -985,7 +993,7 @@
> 	    documentation for your shell for more information.</para>
> 	</note>
> 
>-	<para>Some third party DVD-ROM products such as the FreeBSD Toolkit
>+	<para>Some third-party DVD-ROM products such as the FreeBSD Toolkit
> 	  from the <ulink url="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD
> 	  Mall</ulink> contain distfiles.  They can be used with the Ports
> 	  Collection.  Mount the DVD-ROM on <filename>/cdrom</filename>.  If

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