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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:37:43 +0200
From:      Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: history of the ports tree
Message-ID:  <20000815143743.A24749@totem.fix.no>
In-Reply-To: <200008151229.AAA16110@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>; from dan@langille.org on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:29:44AM %2B1200
References:  <200008151229.AAA16110@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:29:44AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> Where can I find information about the history of the ports tree?  Some=
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> of the questions I'd like to answer are:=20
>=20
> Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD?  If not, from where?  Who did=
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> the initial work?=20

Try this for starters:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/INDEX
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/

=3D) Reading the CVS comments of INDEX is quite funny.

Cheers.

--=20
Anders.

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