[31480] trunk/www/install.php

jmpp at macports.org jmpp at macports.org
Sat Nov 24 21:42:44 PST 2007


Revision: 31480
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/31480
Author:   jmpp at macports.org
Date:     2007-11-24 21:42:42 -0800 (Sat, 24 Nov 2007)

Log Message:
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 * Small wording style corrections;
 * Explain that the DISPLAY env variable for X11 programs only needs to be set explicity for Tiger and earlier only, as Leopard's launchd magic takes care of it on its own.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/www/install.php

Modified: trunk/www/install.php
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--- trunk/www/install.php	2007-11-25 04:44:04 UTC (rev 31479)
+++ trunk/www/install.php	2007-11-25 05:42:42 UTC (rev 31480)
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@
         in any way.</li>
         <li><a href="#svn">SVN checkout</a> of the unpackaged sources, if you wish to follow MacPorts development.</li>
         <li>The <a href="#selfupdate">selfupdate</a> target of the <kbd>port(1)</kbd> command, for users who already have
-        MacPorts installed and wish to upgrade to a new release.</li>
+        MacPorts installed and wish to upgrade to a newer release.</li>
     </ul>
 
-    <p>Checksums for all our <a href="<?php print $downloads; ?>">downloads</a> are contained in the <a href="<?php print
-    $checksums; ?>">checksums file</a>.</p>
+    <p>Checksums for our packaged <a href="<?php print $downloads; ?>">downloads</a> are contained in the corresponding <a
+    href="<?php print $checksums; ?>">checksums file</a>.</p>
 
 
     <div id="requirements">
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
     <h3 class="subhdr" id="source">Source Installation</h3>
 
-    <p>If on the other hand you decide to install MacPorts from source there are still a couple of things you will need to do
+    <p>If on the other hand you decide to install MacPorts from source, there are still a couple of things you will need to do
     after downloading the tarball before you can start installing ports, namely compiling and installing MacPorts itself:</p>
 
 
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@
     <ul>
         <li><kbd>Add ${prefix}/bin</kbd> and <kbd>${prefix}/sbin</kbd> to the start of your <kbd>PATH</kbd> environment variable
         so that MacPorts installed programs take precedence over equally named system provided programs.</li>
-        <li>Add an appropriate X11 <kbd>DISPLAY</kbd> environment variable to run X11 dependent programs.</li>
+        <li>For Tiger and earlier only, add an appropriate X11 <kbd>DISPLAY</kbd> environment variable to run X11 dependent
+        programs, as Leopard takes care of this requirement on its own.</li>
     </ul>
 
     <p>Lastly, you need to synchronize your installation with the MacPorts rsync server:</p>

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