From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 01:13:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C294B86E for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 01:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6122467 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 01:13:28 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0N5Y00I2QBJLVM00@hades.sorbs.net> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 18:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <537D4F2F.1070203@sorbs.net> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 03:13:19 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: Bob Eager Subject: Re: Done with this port References: <13C1124873A73216958EF496@localhost> <537BA4B0.80400@FreeBSD.org> <75E908F4C5C8BF9E3CEC47D8@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <537C355E.5090507@gmx.de> <537D2188.7060508@astart.com> <20140521233324.3180ab5e@raksha.tavi.co.uk> In-reply-to: <20140521233324.3180ab5e@raksha.tavi.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 01:13:28 -0000 Bob Eager wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:32 -0700 > Patrick Powell wrote: > > >> Mathias, I think that brief description of how you did this would be >> VERY useful to some of us looking at this problem and not knowing >> where to start. Perhaps an: 'this is the way it was' and a 'this is >> the way it should be' document would be good. Or even a list of >> links to 'helpful hints' documents. >> > > Looking at already-done ports is good. > > Someone has kindly done one of mine for me so I did a diff on that. > Pretty simple example but gives you the idea. > > FWIW, the port in question is textproc/ml1 > Just as a comment to this - I did my first the other day and most of my time spent trying to decipher the messages of how to make them 'go away' ... First was the fact I couldn't seem to find any documentation on pkg-plist - what it is, what should be in it etc... Second was the 'Orphaned' vs 'Missing' messages - especially as I had followed the docs and couldn't (for 12 hours) find the fact that putting in "PORTDOCS" settings you remove the corresponding entries in the pkg-plist file... That all said - I don't know how one would make it easier to 'get' as most of the docs are very explicit.. with the exception of documenting pkg-plist (or making it googleable.) my $0.02.. ;-) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/