From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Oct 29 04:16:11 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C6DE58304 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 04:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC55A69E71 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 04:16:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ppp121-45-11-215.bras1.adl4.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([121.45.11.215]) by ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 29 Oct 2017 14:46:02 +1030 Subject: Re: When is a FreeBSD port not a port? To: Frank Leonhardt References: <59F314E5.4080306@fjl.co.uk> <520fa3b2-8be7-8141-7e8d-9a60c6d1a1ed@FreeBSD.org> From: Shane Ambler Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:46:01 +1030 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <520fa3b2-8be7-8141-7e8d-9a60c6d1a1ed@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 04:16:11 -0000 On 27/10/2017 22:46, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 27/10/2017 12:13, Frank Leonhardt wrote: >> I've written a "few" utilities over the years that I've made available >> in various places, but it might make sense to put them in >> ports/sysutils. However, they were written on BSD and are therefore not >> ports. >> >> Should I submit them anyway (if I find time to clean them up, of >> course)? Or if not, any (polite) suggestions as to where I should put >> them? I don't use GitHub or SourceForge (too old to change my ways, and >> I normally work off-line anyway). >> >> e.g. http://www.fjl.co.uk/free-stuff >> > > By all means, please do submit your FreeBSD specific code as a "port". > There's precedent -- various ports for periodic jobs or other > FreeBSD-ish things. We aren't hung up on the precise meaning of "ports" > -- it's really a collection of software handily prepared to compile > easily and (increasingly so over time) be made available as pre-compiled > binary packages. The ports and packages system installs and manages software that is not provided by the base system. It is really about simplifying the process of downloading, building and installing available software. The name may have originated based on the idea of "porting" software to run on freebsd but it has grown to be more than that now. You may notice that a lot of software in the ports tree does not need patches to run on freebsd, so many ports are not "ported" to freebsd, just installed. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler