From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 19:17:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA12217 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 19:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.iupui.edu (root@felix.iupui.edu [134.68.45.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA12207 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 19:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona (x2s5p9.dialin.iupui.edu [134.68.249.68]) by felix.iupui.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA01581 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:17:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:17:23 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960520212155.002f6e24@felix.iupui.edu> X-Sender: jrclark@felix.iupui.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: Where to find documentation on the ports collection? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to use the ports collection with only the scant information available in the handbook. Does anyone know where documentation on "how to use the ports collection" can be found? I have tried to get just the "Makefile" and put it into some subdirectory, and then type "make." It does seem to fetch a few files, then it chokes and spits out all kinds of errors -- obviously doing this wrong. It would be nice if this "ports" collection were documented somewhere -- or it is and I can't find it. Seems like it should be so simple... Oh well, I'll just edit the config files by hand until I can figure it all out. A better idea would be to have a ports script that could be downloaded and run to yield a list of current ports that will run under the OS that the script was executed from. But then what do I know, I am just some fool who can't figure out how the ports collection works with zero documentation. :( --John [jrclark@indy.net]