minor tweaks to ports.html

Ian Darwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I don't think any of these is contentious, but thought I'd ask before committing.

Ian

Index: ports.html
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RCS file: /cvs/www/ports.html,v
retrieving revision 1.97
diff -u -r1.97 ports.html
--- ports.html	12 Nov 2008 22:29:14 -0000	1.97
+++ ports.html	4 Feb 2009 17:32:11 -0000
@@ -48,14 +48,15 @@
 
 <p>
 <strong><font color="#e00000">
-The ports &amp; packages collection does NOT go through the thorough security audit that OpenBSD follows.
+The ports &amp; packages collection does NOT go through the thorough security audit that the OpenBSD 
+base system does.
 Although we strive to keep the quality of the packages collection high, we just do not have enough human
 resources to ensure the same level of robustness and security.
 </font></strong>
 
 <p>
 The port collection, originally borrowed from
-<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>, fills this gap.
+<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> and significantly rewritten, fills this gap.
 The concept is to have, for each third-party software, a Makefile that
 controls
 <ul>
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@
 
 <p>
 Packages are the binary equivalent of ports.  A compiled port becomes
-a package that can be registered into the system using 
+a package that can be easily installed and registered into the system using 
 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&amp;sektion=1&amp;format=html">pkg_add(1)</a>
 
 <p>
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@
 <h3><font color="#0000e0"><a name="Get">Getting Packages</a></font></h3>
 
 A large collection of pre-compiled packages is available for most common
-architectures.
+architectures:
 <ul>
 <li>On the CD-Rom (that you can order <a href="orders.html">here</a>),
 <li>On the <a href=ftp.html>ftp mirror sites</a>.
@@ -107,8 +108,8 @@
 set PKG_PATH to that repository URL, in order to grab dependencies.
 
 <p>
-For instance, to install the Gimp package for the 4.4 release on an i386
-machine off the ftp site (including dependencies), do:
+For instance, to install the Gimp package (and any needed dependencies)
+for the 4.4 release on an i386 machine from the ftp site, do:
 
 <pre>
     # export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/packages/i386/
@@ -119,14 +120,14 @@
 <p>
 The 2.7 release saw the introduction of a stable branch for the ports tree.
 <p>
-For instance, to grab the stable branch for the 4.4 release:
+For instance, to get the source for the stable branch of ports for the 4.4 release:
 <pre>
     $ cd /usr/ports
     $ cvs -q -d [email protected]:/cvs up -r OPENBSD_4_4 -Pd
 </pre>
 <p>
 Starting with the 2.8 release, selected binary packages are also made
-available.
+available for the stable branch.
 Please refer to the 
 <a href="pkg-stable.html">stable packages page</a> to find out about
 updated packages and important updates to the stable branch.
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