From b0cd3c3ef2545d2eba2aa79d5f66041ba53d8709 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 09:37:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clean up a rather incorrectly phrased set of instructions on lndir usage. --- share/doc/handbook/ports.sgml | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/ports.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/ports.sgml index 90fc987e3fb..fa0abc87e63 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/ports.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/ports.sgml @@ -242,13 +242,15 @@ doing it:-

Create a "link tree" to it using the lndir(1) command that comes with the XFree86 distribution. Find a location with -some free space and create a directory there, and make a symbolic link -from /usr/ports to that directory. Then invoke the -lndir(1) command with the full pathname of the ``ports'' -directory on the CDROM as an argument (this might be, for example, -something like: lndir /cdrom/ports). Then you can build -ports directly off the CDROM by building them in the link tree you -have created. +some free space, create a directory there and then cd to it. Then +invoke the lndir(1) command with the full pathname of the ``ports'' +directory on the CDROM as the first argument and . (the current directory) +as the second. This might be, for example, something like: + + lndir /cdrom/ports . + +

Then you can build ports directly off the CDROM by building them in the +link tree you have created.

Note that there are some ports for which we cannot provide the original source in the CDROM due to licensing limitations. In that case,