From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 07:43:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E617616A402 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:43:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phi@evilphi.com) Received: from mail.twinthornes.com (mail.twinthornes.com [65.75.198.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C956D13C45B for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:43:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phi@evilphi.com) Received: from [10.0.0.35] (unknown [198.145.29.76]) by mail.twinthornes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F15A5B4; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:23:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45F4FF32.3060408@evilphi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:20:18 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yong Ma References: <20070312065352.B850B10285@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20070312065352.B850B10285@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:16:24 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port/Package Management? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:43:34 -0000 Yong Ma wrote: > This time I am interested in the operational principle of the > port/package system, what is going on while installing packages, and > where is the source files if I want to do some modification? /usr/ports/Mk bsd.port.mk is the central component. There are extra files for various frameworks and platforms. -- Darren Pilgrim