Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:21:05 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Alexander Yeremenko <ay@sita.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <20020203222105.L1599@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua>; from ay@sita.kiev.ua on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:42:03PM %2B0200 References: <20020203064610.A2235@sita.kiev.ua> <20020203045343.GF92093@dan.emsphone.com> <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua>
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:42:03PM +0200, Alexander Yeremenko wrote: > 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. > In general, this tables wold be added to a src/share tree, but the > package is version independant and may be applied to any pre-installed > 2.X-5.X FreeBSD box as an easy workaround. > I only wanna submit a package, i don't want to submit a port. > > 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. Still, the easiest way is to make a port of it and then to do "make package". All you have to do then it "make package" and you have the binary distributions you are looking for. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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