From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 0:52:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CB237B422 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-172-71.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FZW00LWH34OBK@mail.bezeqint.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:51:00 +0300 (GMT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA03786 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:44:46 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:44:46 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: history of the ports tree In-reply-to: <200008260619.SAA44490@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>; from dan@langille.org on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 06:19:11PM +1200 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000826104446.A3386@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <200008251057.WAA33938@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> <200008260619.SAA44490@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 06:19:11PM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > On 25 Aug 2000, at 10:04, Jason C. Wells wrote: > 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. Just take a look at the first few lines of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk: # bsd.port.mk - 940820 Jordan K. Hubbard. # This file is in the public domain. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message