Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 03:28:03 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to make a port of ex-FreeBSD code... Message-ID: <201502130228.t1D2S38X002027@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:33:04 %2B0100." <20150210233303.GX29891@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:31:54PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Chris H wrote this message on Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 15:08 -0800: > > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:21:28 -0800 John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> = > wrote > > >=20 > > > > Hello, > > > >=20 > > > > I'm going to be removing bdes (and possibly enigma) from FreeBSD and > > > > making a port of it... > > > >=20 > > > > What is the best way to do this? > > > >=20 > > > > Should I fetch this from git/svn? Make a new archive of this? But if > > > > I create a new archive, how to distribut it (keeping it in my home dir > > > > is not an option, as I don't plan on maintaining it)? > > > >=20 > > > > Is there an example of other code that was retired to the ports tree? > > > The only example that I can think of was fortune(6); specifically; > > > the "naughty" fortunes that were censored. Last I heard, someone > > > indicated they had ported it into ports tree. > >=20 > > A port was made, but it was nevery committed (or if it was, I sure > > can't find it), so that isn't a good example.. > >=20 > Have a look at devel/fmake Perhaps as bdes is secure/usr.bin/bdes, (so perhaps `real` BSD) these 2 might not be useful as examples, as just imports ?: /usr/sbin/named (9.[23]-RELEASE) src/usr.sbin/named + src/contrib/bind9 to /usr/ports/dns/bind* (10.0-RELEASE & current) 9.2-RELEASE/src/ contrib/cvs + gnu/usr.bin/cvs 11.0-CURRENT/ports/devel/cvs Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Indent previous with "> ". Interleave reply paragraphs like a play script. Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative.
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