From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 16 00:55:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA20311 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA20306 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id AAA14547 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA15051; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:53:43 +0300 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:53:42 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Michael Searle cc: ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: svgalib. where to send ports. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Michael Searle wrote: > Is anyone making a port of svgalib? There are loads of Linux games that need > it - most don't use X. I can't find it in any ports*/graphics directories, > and when I tried to compile it myself I got loads of references to > Linux-specific includes, etc. > > Also, is it OK to send big uue'd binaries to ports? (Containing a large > number of ports, that is. Now the big freeze is over, I'll be sending them > all at once.) No. I think you should make a .tgz fail containing them all and upload that to incoming directory of FreeBSD (on ftp.freebsd.org) and send the message about it to the ports list - thats the standard (canonical if you like it so) way for any ports that are in uue format bigger than 2-3 KB. Sander > > -- > Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk >