From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 30 14:12:37 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 96933E5DF73 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:12:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "bs1.fjl.org.uk", Issuer "bs1.fjl.org.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FB6C63C41 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:12:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from [10.154.179.141] ([85.255.236.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v9UECWTV038954 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:12:35 GMT (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <59F314E5.4080306@fjl.co.uk> <520fa3b2-8be7-8141-7e8d-9a60c6d1a1ed@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: When is a FreeBSD port not a port? From: "Frank Leonhardt (m)" Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:12:12 +0000 CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Message-ID: <845529D2-2EAB-4462-B9EA-7A3BFF0A185A@fjl.co.uk> 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: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:12:37 -0000 On 29 October 2017 07:17:31 GMT+00:00, Mel Pilgrim wrote: >On 10/28/2017 21:16, Shane Ambler wrote: >> 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. > Thanks all. I'll get packaging. They are often small programs to make writing shell scrips easier, such as the human readable number formatter I linked to, or things to read some system status. Five minutes to write, one hour to package and one day to write the man page ;-) Regards, Frank. -- Sent from my Cray X/MP with small fiddling keyboard.