Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:39 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (Fwd) Re: history of the ports tree Message-ID: <200008260619.SAA44497@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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Just in case anyone here can help: ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Subject: Re: history of the ports tree Copies to: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Send reply to: dan@langille.org Date sent: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:19:08 +1200 On 25 Aug 2000, at 10:04, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Did the ports tree originate with FreeBSD? If not, from where? Who > > did the initial work? > > Yes I believe. Jordan I believe. > > This is just from something I remember reading on the lists a long time > ago. I've been looking through the CVS repository. I've found this: /usr/ports/Makefile created in Aug 1994 /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk created Aug 1994 Looking at the original ports, they also seem to date back to Aug 1994. Perhaps that was the start date. ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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