From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 17:19:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A16106564A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E046D8FC13 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds12 with SMTP id ds12so2706611wgb.31 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:19:42 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of kob6558@gmail.com designates 10.180.80.40 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.80.40; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of kob6558@gmail.com designates 10.180.80.40 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=kob6558@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=kob6558@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.80.40]) by 10.180.80.40 with SMTP id o8mr9860612wix.10.1330881582803 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:19:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=IH1JWmglI8FSX00qffWNMYh+3MsfzOp+okJm/gLkJw0=; b=0oJFslhrKjb+q3gJ6PI5u1UzkaYd+DQ7x4cD/gMRoipPMJalBCe3FIx8367ONbRxPx 9bKO9o/Y1QP47ePcbsj+WTgpKjlUmSFDaU+sxNomTVacSRrC43RckUPyT15WLuhKWOso rCiYC2sUyavmJzK9m6FExv4/VfOHClVoEo2L3gDSU8o9Fgozi1WtzM6VarPLOG6ibgQi 53R4M26lGlJPhupiMhnlziVshd5ngMG7u//pK4CCGDWtW6xBSlbyxGesQpGfTossdH9z MOn0D/uI3DTC1nAmFOsOetK2MWy2DVIdFAR1vfpufAhobwbkHmvlMwQgE2O0hooUdMMM ZT/g== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.80.40 with SMTP id o8mr7890525wix.10.1330881582633; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:19:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.16.82 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:19:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120303005944.3baa139a@cox.net> References: <20120302071522.55974eb8@cox.net> <20120302110017.4943a627@cox.net> <20120303005944.3baa139a@cox.net> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:19:42 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to submit a new port along with its distfile? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:19:44 -0000 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote= : > If anyone's interested, the package is call mkreadmes-1.0. =A0It's a C > language version of the port's collection's "make readmes" (or, if you > will, the perl "make_readmes" script under the Tools directory). =A0I > wrote this because I was very dissatisfied with the speed of rebuilding > the README.html files after I update my ports tree. =A0This new tool I've > written cuts the time down to practically nothing. =A0I can now rebuild > all the README.html files for the entire ports tree in less than 30 > seconds. =A0Depending on system load, I've actually seen it run in as > little as @ 15 seconds. > > If you want to try it before it becomes an official port, it's already > available on Sourceforge right now. =A0It should compile and install very > easily on any FreeBSD system, even without the port framework wrapper. > > The source archive is available at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkreadmes/files/mkreadmes-1.0.tar.bz2/dow= nload > > A README file is included in the distribution. =A0Online help is also > available via the "-h" command line option. > > Please don't hesitate to send me any questions, comments, suggestions, > bug reports, etc. Conrad, Thanks so much for mkreadmes. It works as advertised and this is the first time in years that I have built all of the READMEs because it just took way, way too long to do so before mkreadmes. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com