From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 21 12: 4:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BAD37BDBA; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA33049; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:33:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:33:05 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: doc@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Building a porters handbook Message-ID: <20000421193305.B30157@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Reply-To: doc@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -doc, -ports [ FU to -doc ] Per an earlier discussion on -doc, I'd like to pull section 4.4 of the Handbook ("Making a port yourself") out of the Handbook and in to a new "Porter's Handbook". It's believed that most readers of the Handbook won't be creating ports, so this section is 60 or so pages they'll not need. In the Handbook it can be replaced with "If you would like to learn more about the ports systems, or would like to create a port and submit it to the project, please see the _Porter's Handbook_". I'll do this mechanically (so the translators won't have much work to do). In the future, I expect that some of the port's specific stuff in the "Committer's Guide" (damn, should've called it the "Committer's Handbook") can migrate here as well, as can any nitty-gritty ports details that you might have thought to be inappropriate for the Handbook. Any objections? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message