From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 2:27: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B4637B423 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 02:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13UQcK-0000vC-00; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:26:40 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:26:40 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Jim Mock Cc: Nilmoni Deb , Theo Bell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a port Message-ID: <20000831112640.A3457@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000830124332.B50025@envy.geekhouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000830124332.B50025@envy.geekhouse.net>; from jim@jmock.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:43:32PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-08-30 (12:43), Jim Mock wrote: > > Atleast that saves the time of downloading a 12MB file (like > > netscape) for 45 minutes if the user has already downloaded it once. > > The porters-handbook tells you where the tarball should be. On the > second line of Chapter 2. > > ``First, get the original tarball and put it into DISTDIR, which > defaults to /usr/ports/distfiles.'' But the porters-handbook is for porters, not users. I imagine we should have a slightly more advanced version in the handbook, and leave the current ports section in your upcoming new-users-handbook. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message