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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-11-17 11:01:56 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-11-17 11:01:56 +0000
commitd39047ae6f3995c093b85bb2a0a846b917c4a87d (patch)
tree4d8628d9d12d42c61447f038e5d6ca2826c4fe5c /share/man
parente284018a265749c412240d204e22488f2459b9ce (diff)
Add a small TOC description to the synopsis, since people may not read
long enough to find out about fake, or flavors.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.518
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
index dda576525f6..e3d3be5ae2b 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.152 2004/11/17 10:51:37 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.153 2004/11/17 11:01:55 espie Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Marc Espie
.\"
@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ Conversion methods are outlined here.
This is not quite complete; a few variables and targets are not yet documented.
Mostly because undocumented stuff has fuzzy semantics, and it hasn't been
decided yet how to define it.
+.Pp
+This documentation covers the current targets, variables and paths used by
+.Nm bsd.port.mk ,
+followed by sections on obsolete constructs that a porter may need
+when converting from other ports systems.
+There is a separate section covering the frame framework, a section
+explaining flavors and multi-packages, and a section covering
+the generation of packing-lists.
+.Pp
+Selected common user activity such as the building of every package in
+the system is covered by
+.Xr ports 7
+instead.
.Sh TARGETS
.Bl -tag -width do-configure
.It Ar {build,run,all}-dir-depends
@@ -2227,9 +2240,12 @@ situation, where all these files will automatically default to the
non-flavor version if there is no flavor-specific file around.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ftp 1 ,
+.Xr pkg_create 1 ,
.Xr pkg_add 1 ,
.Xr library-specs 7 ,
+.Xr mirroring-ports 7 ,
.Xr packages-specs 7
+.Xr ports 7 .
.Sh HISTORY
The ports mechanism originally came from
.Fx .