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diff --git a/doc/guide/files/faq.xml b/doc/guide/files/faq.xml index f83ece27410..81bb741dd2d 100644 --- a/doc/guide/files/faq.xml +++ b/doc/guide/files/faq.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $NetBSD: faq.xml,v 1.14 2005/07/27 21:29:50 rpaulo Exp $ --> +<!-- $NetBSD: faq.xml,v 1.15 2005/09/02 19:12:37 rillig Exp $ --> <chapter id="faq"> <?dbhtml filename="faq.html"?> <title>Frequently Asked Questions</title> @@ -206,17 +206,12 @@ etc:</para> </itemizedlist> -<para>Utilities for people maintaining pkgsrc (or more obscure pkg +<para>Utilities for people maintaining pkgsrc (or: more obscure pkg utilities)</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para><filename role="pkg">pkgtools/pkgconflict</filename>: Find - packages that conflict but aren't marked as such.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> <para><filename role="pkg">pkgtools/pkg_comp</filename>: Build packages in a chrooted area.</para> </listitem> @@ -262,7 +257,7 @@ that allow finer tuning of the tree layout.</para> <sect1 id="resume-transfers"> <title>How to resume transfers when fetching distfiles?</title> -<para>By default resuming transfers in pkgsrc is disabled, but you can +<para>By default, resuming transfers in pkgsrc is disabled, but you can enable this feature by adding the option <varname>PKG_RESUME_TRANSFERS=YES</varname> into <filename>/etc/mk.conf</filename>. If, during a fetch step, an incomplete @@ -318,7 +313,7 @@ you will have to add the following line into <para>If you are sitting behind a firewall which does not allow direct connections to Internet hosts (i.e. non-NAT), you may specify the relevant proxy hosts. This is done using an environment variable in the -form of a URL e.g. in Amdahl, the machine +form of a URL, e.g. in Amdahl, the machine <quote>orpheus.amdahl.com</quote> is one of the firewalls, and it uses port 80 as the proxy port number. So the proxy environment variables are:</para> @@ -371,7 +366,7 @@ url="ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/">ftp.NetBSD.org</ulink> but downloading the entire directory may not be appropriate.</para> <para>The answer here is to do a <command>make fetch-list</command> in -<filename>/usr/pkgsrc</filename> or one of it's subdirectories, carry the +<filename>/usr/pkgsrc</filename> or one of its subdirectories, carry the resulting list to your machine at work/school and use it there. If you don't have a NetBSD-compatible &man.ftp.1; (like lukemftp) at work, don't forget to set <varname>FETCH_CMD</varname> to something that fetches a @@ -417,7 +412,7 @@ package, you get the error from make that it doesn't know how to make <filename>/usr/share/tmac/tmac.andoc</filename>? This indicates that you don't have installed the <quote>text</quote> set (nroff, ...) from the NetBSD base distribution on your machine. It is recommended to do -that to format manpages.</para> +that to format man pages.</para> <para>In the case of the <filename role="pkg">pkgtools/pkg_install</filename> package, you @@ -432,7 +427,7 @@ environment or in <filename>/etc/mk.conf</filename>.</para> <title>What does <quote>Could not find bsd.own.mk</quote> mean?</title> <para> You didn't install the compiler set, <filename>comp.tgz</filename>, -when you installed your NetBSD machine. Please get it and install it, by +when you installed your NetBSD machine. Please get and install it, by extracting it in <filename>/</filename>:</para> <screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>cd /</userinput> @@ -487,7 +482,7 @@ setting the <varname>PKG_SYSCONFDIR.${PKG_SYSCONFVAR}</varname> variable. package you would like to modify, that is, the contents of <varname>PKGBASE</varname>.</para> -<para>Note that, after changing these settings, you must rebuild and +<para>Note that after changing these settings, you must rebuild and reinstall any affected packages.</para> </sect1> |