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RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/ports/README,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.7 -r1.9
--- ports/README	1999/10/07 14:35:52	1.7
+++ ports/README	2001/02/21 23:23:13	1.9
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@
 go to ports@openbsd.org
 
 Considering the size of the ports tree, and even though we strive to
-eradicate all bugs, things may go wrong on invidual ports.  
+eradicate all bugs, things may go wrong on individual ports.  
 In such a case, as a general rule, try to contact the MAINTAINER first.  
 If nothing happens after a reasonable delay, start plaguing him, 
 or go to the next step.
 
-Developpers with a major investment in the ports tree include
+Developers with a major investment in the ports tree include
 brad@cvs.openbsd.org, turan@cvs.openbsd.org, espie@cvs.openbsd.org
 
 Those people can be contacted to put some pressure on a lazy maintainer.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 The ports tree usually live under /usr/ports. It's a hierarchical
 list of recipes to build various pieces of software.
 We'll call that PORTSDIR in the following discussion.
-Stuff that doesn't constitue a port proper, but rather paraphernalia,
+Stuff that doesn't constitute a port proper, but rather paraphernalia,
 is stored under /usr/ports/infrastructure, INFRA in the following
 discussion.
 
@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@
 * `make distclean CLEANDEPENDS=Yes', guess what this does.
 
 Please note that, in normal use, the OpenBSD ports tree will grow quite
-a lot.  Careful use of make clean and make distclean will help you.
-`find /usr/ports -type d -name work\* -print' can be useful to find out
-ports you forgot to clean out.
+a lot.  Careful use of make clean and make distclean will help you. You
+can also redirect ports activity elsewhere by making use of WRKOBJDIR
+and DISTDIR.  `find /usr/ports -type d -name work\* -print' 
+can be useful to find out ports you forgot to clean out.
 
 There are a few kinks in the building of ports with options yet. Namely,
 all such ports should produce distinct package names if built with
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@
 
 Continuing our CD-Rom example, you could also fetch files off a CD-Rom into
 your repository for safe-keeping by using the following incantation:
-make fetch MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE='file:/cdrom/{$DIST_SUBDIR}/' 
+make fetch MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE='file:/cdrom/${DIST_SUBDIR}/' 
 This is equivalent to using CDROM_SITE.
 
 Some common sites have their own variables. It is strongly recommended
@@ -329,4 +330,4 @@
 
 	http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html
 
-$OpenBSD: README,v 1.7 1999/10/07 14:35:52 espie Exp $
+$OpenBSD: README,v 1.9 2001/02/21 23:23:13 avsm Exp $