From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 16 20:47:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (unknown [209.196.61.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50A237B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:47:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from aguirre.la.mastaler.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 303BFD049A for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:47:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 36115 invoked by uid 100); 17 Nov 2000 04:47:22 -0000 To: Lauri Laupmaa Cc: "'ports@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: howto turn NetBSD port to FreeBSD one ? References: <8E67E032AD23D4118F740050042F21F793@lant.mbp.ee> X-Face: #PFJ%E?"C]hg]n/b(X~UrRpjsGT[!dwR>L]h\8|Da#kz,&TBB`@{JN'iLB+X5K6F#+cio5k 9MWHi#f=+FO5(1l0EGJcylJm40p,/7p6fpK#2l3egDrl^v]:Es&xg!g|G:)6W\2}|@UgN=k*sCt_KH +DKCDZ5R|4%P&jN|WnreN`8"KC;y,&drj Date: 16 Nov 2000 21:47:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: Lauri Laupmaa's message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:41:25 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lauri Laupmaa writes: > As I understand, netbsd is quite near relative to freebsd... Is it > difficult to convert existing netbsd port (package?) to freebsd port > ? What steps should I take ? It is not difficult. Download the NetBSD package to use as a reference/base, and then refer to the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook . Some of the files will need to be renamed, and/or modified. I'm not aware of a more automated methodology. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message