Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:43:07 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Notes for a first-time porter Message-ID: <59DB212EE0DEF193513C181C@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071219153809.U14513@prime.gushi.org> References: <20071219153809.U14513@prime.gushi.org>
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--On Wednesday, December 19, 2007 15:56:49 -0500 "Dan Mahoney, System Admin"
<danm@prime.gushi.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am thinking of doing a quick port of the "zsu" zone file serial number
> bumper for FreeBSD.
>
> However, I have a couple of questions regarding ports that aren't clear to
> me, nor do they seem to be in the porter's handbook.
>
> 1) What provision is made for when a port's "distsite" is simply "CPAN". Does
> the ports tree have any kinds of smarts regarding CPAN mirrors, locality, etc?
>
> 2) Is freeBSD's bastardization of CPAN files into packages (i.e. the BSDPAN)
> stuff documented anywhere?
>
> 3) Unrelated to my port but I'll ask anyway: I'm vaguely aware that
> SourceForge has a command-line fetching utility for a while (you could only
> use it if you were a supporter tho). I'm not sure if this is still the case.
> At any rate, is there any special provision for local sourceforge mirrors, as
> above?
The easiest way to learn porting (IMHO) is to grep the ports system.
So:
root@utd59514# grep CPAN www/p5-libwww/*
www/p5-libwww/Makefile:MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
Or:
root@utd59514# grep -r CPAN /usr/ports/Mk/*
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk:# Disable AutoInstall from attempting to install from
CPAN directly in
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:.if !defined(IGNORE_MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN)
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN+= \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
${MASTER_SITE_RINGSERVER:S,%SUBDIR%,lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/&,} \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/
\
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://cpan.pop-mg.com.br/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:
ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/%SUBDIR%/ \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk:MASTER_SITES_ABBREVS= CPAN:PERL_CPAN
SF:SOURCEFORGE SFE:SOURCEFORGE_EXTENDED \
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk: PERL_CPAN:${PORTNAME:C/-.*//} \
I don't know what you mean by "bastardization", but most, if not all, CPAN
ports begin with p5- and then the module follows. For example, Mail::IMAP ==
p5-Mail-Imap. There may be others, but the only one I know of that doesn't
follow that convention is www/p5-libwww.
Sourceforge works the same way.
root@utd59514# grep SOURCEFORGE security/barnyard/*
security/barnyard/Makefile:MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE}
--
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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