From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 11:22:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4047137B401 for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 11:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from httpd1.terions.de (static62-99-146-055.adsl.inode.at [62.99.146.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60CF743FAF for ; Sun, 18 May 2003 11:22:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at) Received: (qmail 86732 invoked from network); 18 May 2003 18:22:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO martin.kleinerdrache.org) (127.0.0.1) by loopback with SMTP; 18 May 2003 18:22:19 -0000 Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 20:22:18 +0200 From: Martin Klaffenboeck To: ports freebsd group Message-ID: <20030518182218.GA59208@martin.kleinerdrache.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.11 Lines: 13 Subject: documentation for the ports system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:22:24 -0000 Hello, I know the Porter's Hanbook, but what I want to ask is: Is there anywhere a documentation for the ports system? How are the /var/db/pkg/* files are created. Where comes the origin from and so on. How does dynamic pkg-plist creating work? (In ports which do not have a pkg-plist file)... Is there anywhere a docu for that? Martin