From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 11:15:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED4837B447 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g13JFP606156; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:15:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:15:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alexander Yeremenko Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <20020203191524.GA2848@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020203064610.A2235@sita.kiev.ua> <20020203045343.GF92093@dan.emsphone.com> <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 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