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authorissyl0 <issyl0@FreeBSD.org>2012-09-28 11:11:42 +0000
committerissyl0 <issyl0@FreeBSD.org>2012-09-28 11:11:42 +0000
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Add a note to portsnap(8) about the behaviour of the example cron command.
PR: docs/171759 Submitted by: Paul Hoffman (phoffman at proper dot com) Approved by: cperciva, gabor (mentor) MFC after: 3 days
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8 b/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8
index f0b3628..bb3dacc 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd August 5, 2012
+.Dd September 28, 2012
.Dt PORTSNAP 8
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
@@ -180,6 +180,23 @@ can quickly be extracted into
If your clock is set to UTC, please pick a random time other
than 3AM, to avoid overly imposing an uneven load on the
server(s) hosting the snapshots.
+.Pp
+Note that running
+.Nm
+.Cm cron
+or
+.Nm
+.Cm fetch
+does not apply the changes that were received: they only only download
+them.
+To apply the changes, you must follow these commands with
+.Nm
+.Cm update .
+The
+.Nm
+.Cm update
+command is normally run by hand at a time when you are sure that
+no one is manually working in the ports tree.
.It
Running
.Nm
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