From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 6:30: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B92E37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 06:30:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b142.otenet.gr [212.205.244.150]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g13EPqLC010746; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:25:55 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g13EAla14444; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:10:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:10:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Alexander Yeremenko Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <20020203141045.GA7827@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020203064610.A2235@sita.kiev.ua> <20020203045343.GF92093@dan.emsphone.com> <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-02-03 12:42, Alexander Yeremenko wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:53:43PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 03), Alexander Yeremenko said: > > > In a HANDBOOK i find no official ways to submit new package to > > > FreeBSD packages collection. send-pr seems no suitable in this case. > > > How can i contribute ? > > > > A package is simply a precompiled port. Submit the port and the > > package will appear. > > I'm not shure it has a sence to talk about a port in in my case. > Nothing was ported. Nobody will need to recompile this package. This > package only installs some additional locale and syscons tables and > script for their activation. > In general, this tables wold be added to a src/share tree, but the > package is version independant and may be applied to any pre-installed > 2.X-5.X FreeBSD box as an easy workaround. The /usr tree is touched only by parts of the base system. Ports and packages go in /usr/local (or wherever you have them set to be installed). By the description of this (addition of a new locale table) it looks like a good candidate for inclusion in the base system. I think you should use send-pr(1) for it :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message