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To: Chris Haidinyak <chrish@alpha.techspecs.com>
cc: agc@uts.amdahl.com, ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Postgres95 for FreeBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:24:54 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:06:15 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>      It sounds like agc@uts.amdahl.com is also working to finish the port
> of postgres95 to FreeBSD. I personally haven't done any work on the port;
> it has been nicely done already. What I did find out was that the version
> of lex (flex) FreeBSD distributes is out-of-date. Other than that the package
> compiled quite nicely. The only reason I am asking it be put onto the officia

Again, as I said, all we need are whatever diffs or build procedures
are necessary to building and *installing* the port and we can do the
whole thing as a FreeBSD port.  /usr/ports/databases has only 2
entries in it, and it'd sure be nice to have more than that!

Putting something into the ports collection also has the added value
of _advertising_ the port.  There's really no use in porting something
if people aren't able to easily find out about it, and the ports collection
is very well advertised with even a WEB interface to it now available
(http://freefall.freebsd.org/Ports).

The only downside is that it takes just a little more work to make a "port"
out of something since you're essentially seeking to automate the entire
process.  A user should be able to:

	cd /usr/ports/databases/postgres95
	make all install

And have it all happen automagically from there.

						Jordan