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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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