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 -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@cdrom.com - - phone: 925.691.2800 x3814 - fax: 925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - freebsdzine - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - ..the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings.. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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