Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:27:38 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1013192858.4f15c9@mired.org> To: Alexander Yeremenko <ay@sita.kiev.ua> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <15453.33050.120745.335015@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <83752666@toto.iv>
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Alexander Yeremenko <ay@sita.kiev.ua> types: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:53:43PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 03), Alexander Yeremenko said: > > > In a HANDBOOK i find no official ways to submit new package to > > > FreeBSD packages collection. send-pr seems no suitable in this case. > > > How can i contribute ? > > A package is simply a precompiled port. Submit the port and the > > package will appear. > I'm not shure it has a sence to talk about a port in in my case. > Nothing was ported. Nobody will need to recompile this package. This > package only installs some additional locale and syscons tables and > script for their activation. As others have pointed out, this may be suitable for a system patch, and you need to use send-pr to submit that patch. > In general, this tables wold be added to a src/share tree, but the > package is version independant and may be applied to any pre-installed > 2.X-5.X FreeBSD box as an easy workaround. > I only wanna submit a package, i don't want to submit a port. It can't be done. Packages are built from ports. If there isn't a port, there can't be a package. However, packages don't have to compile things, etc. Take a look at the misc/cuecat port, which is a collection of python scripts for dealing with cuecat scanners. Since these scripts were written on FreeBSD, they weren't ported either :-). If the patch to the system doesn't get picked up, you can create a port for it that doesn't compile anything, just installs it. > ps btw there is no guarantee, that submitted port will appear although > in a packages collection. Why will i make problems to unexpirienced > users to compile port by themselves ? All they need is pkg_add at all. Whether or not any particular packages collection includes a specific package is up to the person compiling the collection. I believe that the freebsd FTP sites carry all the packages that can be distributed over the internet. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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