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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-11-26 17:54:26 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-11-26 17:54:26 +0000
commitbe4c1490ba64d05bee127e5375fef397f29e77f0 (patch)
tree85151ddc1d30df303503327053a5de5acb3fc25f /share
parentb1a9c0a79daf45c38ec6c51fce673f44db47edf1 (diff)
there's no longer a `special' main packages in MULTI_PACKAGES ports
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/ports.712
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/ports.7 b/share/man/man7/ports.7
index e5913f33628..6fe68affd67 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/ports.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/ports.7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ports.7,v 1.62 2006/11/02 16:48:11 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ports.7,v 1.63 2006/11/26 17:54:25 espie Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD: ports.7,v 1.7 1998/06/23 04:38:50 hoek Exp $
.\"
.Dd January 25, 1998
@@ -502,12 +502,13 @@ ports tree comes with a mechanism called
This mechanism is used when a larger package is broken down into
several smaller components referred to as subpackages.
.Pp
-If a port is "subpackaged", in addition to the main package, each
-subpackage will have a corresponding description in the
+If a port is "subpackaged", each subpackage will have
+a corresponding description in the
.Pa pkg/DESCR-subpackage
file.
.Pp
For example, the database/mysql port comes with subpackages called
+.Ic main ,
.Ic tests
and
.Ic server .
@@ -516,7 +517,10 @@ In this instance, the build will yield multiple packages, one
corresponding to each subpackage.
In the case of our mysql example,
the subpackages will be called
-.Ic mysql-tests-<version> and mysql-server-<version> .
+.Ic mysql-client-<version> ,
+.Ic mysql-tests-<version> ,
+and
+.Ic mysql-server-<version> .
.Pp
To install/deinstall a specific subpackage of a port, you may
.Xr pkg_add 1