Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:15:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Alexander Yeremenko <ay@sita.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <20020203191524.GA2848@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua> References: <20020203064610.A2235@sita.kiev.ua> <20020203045343.GF92093@dan.emsphone.com> <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Feb 03), Alexander Yeremenko said: > 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. Then make a port that downloads the files, set NO_BUILD=yes and overload the do-install: target to install them. You can use ports/audio/festdoc as an example of a port that simply installs files. > 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. If you submit a port, it _will_ appear as a package, unless there are licensing restrictions. You could also submit the files in a PR, for inclusion in the main FreeBSD source tree, which would save people from even having to install a package. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020203191524.GA2848>