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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:37:43 +0200
From: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
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Subject: Re: history of the ports tree
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In-Reply-To: <200008151229.AAA16110@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>; from dan@langille.org on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:29:44AM +1200
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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=
=20
> of the questions I'd like to answer are:=20
>=20
> Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD?  If not, from where?  Who did=
=20
> 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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