From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 20:56:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769E616A41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from prime.gushi.org (prime.gushi.org [72.9.101.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2949313C4CC for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from prime.gushi.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prime.gushi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBJKupP6023452 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:56:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=primegushiorg; d=prime.gushi.org; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type; b=QfnXoxgKKlal8YvMHFwOIJjnkzK/FGaruTk14bo1EGvWANK6LO55OB5YhhoHg/HE2 xIoA94vfnfFfT8VlEpx5A== Received: (from danm@localhost) by prime.gushi.org (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id lBJKunql023447; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:56:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:56:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071219153809.U14513@prime.gushi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (prime.gushi.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:56:54 -0500 (EST) Cc: Subject: Notes for a first-time porter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:56:56 -0000 All, I am thinking of doing a quick port of the "zsu" zone file serial number bumper for FreeBSD. However, I have a couple of questions regarding ports that aren't clear to me, nor do they seem to be in the porter's handbook. 1) What provision is made for when a port's "distsite" is simply "CPAN". Does the ports tree have any kinds of smarts regarding CPAN mirrors, locality, etc? 2) Is freeBSD's bastardization of CPAN files into packages (i.e. the BSDPAN) stuff documented anywhere? 3) Unrelated to my port but I'll ask anyway: I'm vaguely aware that SourceForge has a command-line fetching utility for a while (you could only use it if you were a supporter tho). I'm not sure if this is still the case. At any rate, is there any special provision for local sourceforge mirrors, as above? -Dan Mahoney -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------