Bug 238108

Summary: "ports" man page needs update
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Jason W. Bacon <jwb>
Component: Ports FrameworkAssignee: Port Management Team <portmgr>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: linimon, ports-bugs, tcberner
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Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Jason W. Bacon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-05-24 17:32:49 UTC 
The "package" section in "man ports" appears to be wrong on two details:

     package              Make a binary package for the port.  The port will
                          be installed if it has not already been.  The
                          package is a .tbz file that you can use to install
                          the port on other machines with pkg-add(8).  If the
                          directory specified by PACKAGES does not exist, the
                          package will be put into the current directory.  See
                          PKGREPOSITORY and PKGFILE.

1. Default is .txz, not .tbz
2. If $PACKAGES does not exist, package is placed in work/pkg, not CWD
Comment 1 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-09-06 09:01:43 UTC 
patches welcome ;)
Comment 2 Jason W. Bacon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-09-07 21:12:22 UTC 
Created attachment 207266 [details]
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Comment 3 Tobias C. Berner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-07 15:23:49 UTC 
Moin moin 

Closing this, due to old age. Please re-open the issue, if it is still relevant.


mfg Tobias