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Date:      Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:30:42 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-ports Mailing List <FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Documentation? 
Message-ID:  <13379.843384642@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:15:46 -0000." <Pine.BSF.3.95.960922190933.13728C-100000@sdev.blaze.net.au> 

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> Is there any documentation on how things are added to the FreeBSD
> ports collection?  I have a few things that I wish to add, but

There's always http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook25.html#ports

> - how the makefile system works (ok, I can work out most of it,
>   but it'd be nice if I could take some of the guess work out
>   of it but, say, at least having the most common make variables
>   documented in some fashion, and how things like dependancies
>   between pacakges worked).

That's all at the top of /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk

> I wanted to add jed/xjed, slrn and slang. The patches are minimal

slang is actually already in.  Kind of strange that jed hasn't
followede it yet.

> Also, I'd like to submit changes/enhancements to the Lynx 2.6
> port to have it use slang (and therefore be in colour - which is

Looks like this is already there also!

					Jordan



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