From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 3:21:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k7.mavetju.org (p59-max9.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.156.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA02E37B402 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 03:21:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 327023DA; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:21:05 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:21:05 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Alexander Yeremenko Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <20020203222105.L1599@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Alexander Yeremenko , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua>; from ay@sita.kiev.ua on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:42:03PM +0200 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 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