From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 27 18:48:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C31CFA for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:48:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x236.google.com (mail-ob0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819831563 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id dn14so4377370obc.41 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:48:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=O5z78Le2vgZt9FIcSDOAu9ktkRA/vsawgQNRuQzSUAE=; b=KiMKDsWZqrA7UW2PmL5Ntc4nZlZtS7/E7HO8F8HJBLY9EKHTrmknCdH1YR++M3m9Pe o7IyQNqsn39OEHxkb0TuGsv0OoyILrdEb8YxZvjMQDXbsRutrddl2aaHqR/oGLtGJr1T HEOd5b9i3CaRUp97JKDBE/LKuyYJWhkqpUVNQzMz913a37lM+tOjrFVB8Lq2g/H0SYqg OL3ZTBYA9fXa2XiSgxekzvphoFERm/ASUX3xsjRAt/FTLhB4jQMUzPe872voD/715gQ7 7rjZu505D0jBX3dNQD9TdeMoGC01cLY2nicJX2LqBf/EzU7ol+0IL9xFkirJK6dxuhby +zZQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.34.167 with SMTP id a7mr21492811oej.20.1367088479996; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.33.7 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:47:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <517A50D8.50503@gmail.com> References: <1366861249.50130.YahooMailNeo@web161201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <517A50D8.50503@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:47:59 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: uEHADyL1ViV-Q7dF1NPt4anuEUw Message-ID: Subject: Re: A package for the ubuntu-font port? From: Kevin Oberman To: Johan Hendriks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "Grant D. Watson" , FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:48:00 -0000 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Grant D. Watson schreef: > >> Ports folks, >> >> I sent a message to Kevin Lo, since the ports search site lists his >> address for ubuntu-font, but he said this isn't his area. >> >> I am a Linux user who's been playing with FreeBSD and enjoying it; in >> creating and destroying experimental VMs I've made great use of binary >> packages. For some reason the ubuntu-font port is not available as a >> package. Would that be difficult to change? It's no hardship to >> install it from ports of course, but having it as a package would be >> convenient. >> >> Thanks for all your work. >> >> Grant >> >> >> You could create your own package after it is installed from ports. > > |pkg_create -b ubuntu-font-0.80_1 > > pkg_add will install the package. > > gr > johan > > > Or, more simply, build and install the port and then 'make package'. Both portmaster an portupgrade support package building that is generally cleaner. For portmaster, '-g' is the option -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com