From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 10:27:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CE3137B400 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 10:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 610 invoked by uid 100); 3 Feb 2002 18:27:38 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15453.33050.120745.335015@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:27:38 -0600 To: Alexander Yeremenko Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to submit package ? In-Reply-To: <83752666@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Yeremenko 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. 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