Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:24:33 -0700 From: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> To: Catalin Miclaus <catalin@starcomms.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Right way to build package from non-port software Message-ID: <20080311062433.GY30324@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A0AA7018522134597ED63B3B794C92A0180F1FB@STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local> References: <3A0AA7018522134597ED63B3B794C92A0180F1FB@STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local>
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--e8znkWhb8vS+si4n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:38:40AM +0100, Catalin Miclaus wrote: > What is the right way of building packages for non-ports applications? >=20 > AFAIK 'make package' and ' pkg_create -b name' are based on ports > installed packages. >=20 > Is there any way of using same commands or additional scripts to achieve > similar results? >=20 > If it matters I'm trying to create packages from net-snmp-5.4.1 sources > (needed for 64-bits counters feature) since ports version is based on > 5.3.2. >=20 > Suggestions are welcome. In this situation, my team generally gets its hands dirty and bumps the port. Usually it's as easy as updating the PORTVERSION variable. Then attach the port diff to a PR and it'll be updated in the official ports tree fast.=20 Unfortunately, net-snmp looks like a pretty complex port that isn't going to be quite so easy. You might consider pinging the maintainer about the new upstream version to see if there's any interest in bumping the port. You might also just be able to write your own port for the new version =66rom scratch (it sounds like you just grabbed the source tarball and didn't apply all the FreeBSD patches). See the handbook [1]. Your best bet may be a combination of the two approaches.=20 [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/quick= -porting.html Good luck, --=20 Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley --e8znkWhb8vS+si4n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQIVAwUBR9YloSPHEDszU3zYAQI4PA/+Knq3+HEooQp7ONHhOABBqZPKTuJ4Ed2k Rqc6Dj0lDKUkuwVmNIYGj3mZswrAYRISCPxRHE/C9TmNl+LI5lKv8bTmBckE6UuS PKYCrRr+N+l3+QMySYCsXMJqnw8inajfMBHtq8qBz0ltsCmmnxlqyGEtwxack19i n7WA9KOrnPBepfddM6uL9Vdjc8vVeg1ZhWUB7wAYhs/MaRSClT+QqdbYQImqQjqj yAxSI/fla/ZWZMsmxig3mb9J6leajy3eM7sqlpOx4hH3hKlr6ZBaEyRTMHc0oVvz BD2wtsBLiGjZXZ0c7yySJzkap+Xl79ByMg7ohn09GWue0HmuihZCuP1e9EPrfzK/ 9YZwlvCZYFZvavirHcBbcleF/zIOkjQ0kqcBPrevVPBG6C40RPt9VtCO+Y7hVmXm +kapmynqjsTKAGcIv/5YJfXGXhFSVYK1+/4+J5k3WVH1JKs/GZMTDIam8p8W8wOI z3syydw9JjeoHR7RkHtPgole8ueiSogmLXHbc/doVeJ4FO28khOZZUFHNc6fmwvl iAPnizFOU1u5MAIMKrKgtWlVw5Sm8OBGWgzqJLrOfajxF83bbBmPIidj7Y0Qc8gT uCuFVES3qyEmu85VZ2AobzGPwF+lkQuKxyWmQ5BD4TzVrVdeokI2ZLssKZKLFYo2 MDnYJUMvLdI= =0lRz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --e8znkWhb8vS+si4n--
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