From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 13:59:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DBD37B6A8 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0NLxRN22005; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:59:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:59:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: john@firstbase.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributing a large body of code Message-ID: <20010123155926.A746@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010123123833.A26445@medusa.firstbase.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.13i In-Reply-To: <20010123123833.A26445@medusa.firstbase.com>; from "john@firstbase.com" on Tue Jan 23 12:38:33 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 23), john@firstbase.com said: > Sorry to bother you with a general question: > > Inside of http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/contrib-how.html section > 20.2.4 talks about "contribution of a large body of work". > > I am the author of such a beast, FirstBase, I develop on FreeBSD, and > I'd like to contribute FirstBase and tune it to be a FreeBSD package. > > http://firstbase.com/firstbase > > Can you point me in the right direction. The handbook section you're in really refers to contributing things to the base system (say a patch to ls), instead of creating a port/package for a 3rd-party application. http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/ is the reference for creating a port. Since you said you develop on FreeBSD, the port Makefile should be pretty simple. The "Quick Porting" section will probably be all you need. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message