Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:58:17 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: FBSD1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8 Message-ID: <20081026135817.GA66741@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBMECBCMAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> References: <20081026110209.GA65188@ozzmosis.com> <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBMECBCMAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com>
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On Sun 2008-10-26 19:28:55 UTC+0800, FBSD1 (fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) wrote: > After researching in greater detail it seem that kopete has never had a > package generated for it. The freebsd.org folks only have limited resources. Not all the ports have packages made for them. > I did ftp of the packages server and checked all the different releases > latest directory and find kopete has never been built as a package all the > way back to release 5.0. There must be an error in the release package build > system. It is not an error for a package to not exist. The packages made available on freebsd.org are really only provided for the convenience of sysadmins don't have to build all their ports from source. With several thousand ports in the ports tree it's just not practical to supply packages for all of them. It's just inevitable that some ports have to be built from source by the sysadmin. Anyway, it is pretty easy to build it yourself and make your own package. cd /usr/ports/net-im/kopete make package You can also use 'pkg_create -b' instead of 'make package'. > Can a package be built for inclusion in current and 7.1 and 8.0 > releases? Only commonly used ports (eg. Apache) are supplied on the release discs.
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