In release(8), defer discussion of ports/package building to ports(7),

which has more complete information (e.g. about DPB). ok espie@ jmc@

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man8/release.8 b/share/man/man8/release.8
index 76934a72a52..7f14a0edb8c 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/release.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/release.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: release.8,v 1.66 2012/09/02 13:47:25 rpe Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: release.8,v 1.67 2013/11/26 17:53:22 sthen Exp $
 .\"
 .\"	Copyright (c) 2000 Marco S. Hyman
 .\"
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .\"	LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
 .\"	FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 2 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 26 2013 $
 .Dt RELEASE 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -335,22 +335,11 @@ in your release directory.
 .Ss 7. Make the third party packages
 The
 .Sq ports
-subsystem of contributed applications is described in
-.Xr ports 7 .
-For ease of installation ports can be pre-compiled into
+subsystem of contributed applications is capable of producing
 .Sq packages
-which can then be installed on multiple machines using
-.Xr pkg_add 1 .
-Packages are created by selecting an application to build
-(we'll call this one CATEGORY/PORT) and then running the following:
-as root:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-$ cd /usr/ports/CATEGORY/PORT
-$ su
-# make package
-.Ed
-.Pp
-That's all there is to it.
+for installation, either individually or in bulk.
+This is described in
+.Xr ports 7 .
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr cvs 1 ,
 .Xr pkg_add 1 ,