Re: Annotation for doc review

2014-07-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, July 04, 2014 4:54:42 pm Warren Block wrote: > The phabricator instance has shown that some review can be done more > easily. > > We've talked before about having periodic reviews of parts of the > documentation. It turns out that experts rarely read the docs on things > they know a

Re: Handbook - mention portsnap in Section 5.3 - finding software, pkgng respository

2014-07-09 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Patrick Powell wrote: I notice that Section 5.3 - Finding Software describes how to search for software but there are a couple of steps left out that might confuse a newbie. ... Note: I think pkg is a GREAT improvement over the old pkg_add, but the legacy documentation

Handbook - mention portsnap in Section 5.3 - finding software, pkgng respository

2014-07-09 Thread Patrick Powell
I notice that Section 5.3 - Finding Software describes how to search for software but there are a couple of steps left out that might confuse a newbie. I think you need to run 'portsnap fetch install' if you did not install the ports when you did the system installation. In any case, it is a