Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 09:51:01 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: James Raynard <fports@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting without tarballs Message-ID: <9927.879097861@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Nov 1997 12:24:20 GMT." <19971109122420.39804@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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> I have two more ports which are ready to be committed, once I can get > over the last hurdle. The problem is there is no tarball for either of > the ports; the source is on an FTP server that doesn't support on-the-fly > tarring (and in any case I have a nasty suspicion they may soon delete it). > > The best solution seems to make my own tarball and put it on > ftp.freebsd.org. Is this correct, and if so how do I go about it? Actually, historically we've been putting such things up at ftp://hub.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS which, as a ports committer, you should be able to write to directly. Jordan
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