From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 18:59:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA26427 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:59:24 -0800 Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA26418 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:59:18 -0800 Received: (from jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.7/8.7/PanixU1.3) id VAA24055; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:59:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:59:03 -0500 (EST) From: Barry Masterson To: "freebsd.questions" Subject: Installing ported packages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm interested in installing some of the programs that are not included in the FreeBSD main distribution; procmail, rzsz, minicom, ingres,... I've been to the 'port' directory, and have seen the Makefile, DESCR, configure, ...all the others. I've also read, briefly, the available text on the 'ports collection'. I already have the source code for some of the programs I want to install, picked up locally via FTP. My question is, what part do the 'port' files in play in the installation of these programs. Should I replace the packaged Makefile with the ported Makefile? Should I place all of the 'port' files ( DESCR, PLIST, patches, configure, md5, Makefile.sed,...) in the same directory as the source code, then 'make'? Thanks for your time, Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - FreeBSD 2.0.5 - - - - - - - - - - - - -