From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 01:40:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5908016A4D0 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 01:40:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E588843D45 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 01:40:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so2556205nzk for ; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:40:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IgwEwRVYiIACwSlkBPLiD/vq0/mcY2/PxYThGmrFSms6QOBe2H+92LGEuvvIkLCXCCKeUdgRdsa3CFZ0i4tg64gROVoLHhJEdEkXidI7fET7B+aNEEx/7HBHhoAClnGmA15frtCfXzeMmeKp8dCeli4tZv1r8eivMWRL0eaZXd4= Received: by 10.36.41.20 with SMTP id o20mr627753nzo; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.91.20 with HTTP; Mon, 2 May 2005 18:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 09:40:28 +0800 From: Jiawei Ye To: "clive@delback.co.uk" In-Reply-To: <000301c54f2e$d982e010$6401a8c0@clive> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <000301c54f2e$d982e010$6401a8c0@clive> cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: brooks@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: slimserver-6.0.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jiawei Ye List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 01:40:29 -0000 On 5/2/05, clive@delback.co.uk wrote: --snip-- > 1. Downloaded and installed the minimal install of FreeBSD 5.3 production > release onto a completely empty hard disk - no other operating systems ar= e > lying around to confuse things. This appears to be working fine - it beha= ves > very much like System V Unixes that I've worked on many years ago. >=20 > 2. I read that Slimserver needs Perl 5.8.6, so I downloaded the package > (perl-5.8.6_2.tbz) and installed that. It reported that it had installed > correctly. Everything till this step looks good. >=20 > 3. I next downloaded slimserver.tar.gz (for version 6.0.2). As far as I c= an > tell, this should be expanded out into /usr/ports/audio/slimserver. After > installing FreeBSD, there was already a /usr/ports/audio/slimserver, but = it > was for version 5.3.0. So I renamed that directory and created a new > /usr/ports/audio/slimserver, into which I placed all the files from > slimserver.tar.gz. I made sure the permissions on the directory were the > same as they were on the previous one that I'd renamed. /usr/ports, in FreeBSD terms is the 'ports tree'. You can get started with it by reading our handbook section on Ports System. Cheers, Jiawei --=20 "Without the userland, the kernel is useless." --inspired by The Tao of Programming