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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:22:48 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <jim@limbo.cdrom.com>
To:        Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help making ports
Message-ID:  <19991118112247.A40922@limbo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <383428D4.AE8BE11A@offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:27:05AM -0600
References:  <383428D4.AE8BE11A@offwhite.net>

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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 at 10:27:05 -0600, Brennan Stehling wrote:
> I have been using FreeBSD for almost two years now.  I have had my
> own server for 6 months now, and I would like to help port
> applications where I am capable.
> 
> I am a perl programmer for mostly web applications.  What I can I
> do to start helping?

Find an application you like/use/think would be useful to others and
make a port of it :-)

> I do not know how to create patches or any of the methods in the
> ports collection.  I need to know where I need to go and what to
> read to learn.

The handbook.. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/porting.html

- jim

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