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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>
Cc: ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Which ports get made into packages?
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:29:49PM +0100, Tim Bishop wrote:
> I was just looking through the packages on the freebsd ftp server, and I
> notice the port I maintain (irc/pircbot) isn't there. So I'm guessing that
> not all ports have packages available? If so, how are the ports chosen to be
> made into packages?

Every package that can be built (i.e. compiles and is allowed to be
packaged according to the RESTRICTED/IGNORE/FORBIDDEN/NO_PACKAGE/etc
directives) is built.

Kris

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