Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:10:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Yeremenko <ay@sita.kiev.ua> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to submit package ? Message-ID: <20020203141045.GA7827@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua> References: <20020203064610.A2235@sita.kiev.ua> <20020203045343.GF92093@dan.emsphone.com> <20020203124203.A86128@sita.kiev.ua>
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On 2002-02-03 12:42, Alexander Yeremenko wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:53:43PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 03), Alexander Yeremenko said:
> > > In a HANDBOOK i find no official ways to submit new package to
> > > FreeBSD packages collection. send-pr seems no suitable in this case.
> > > How can i contribute ?
> >
> > A package is simply a precompiled port. Submit the port and the
> > package will appear.
>
> I'm not shure it has a sence to talk about a port in in my case.
> Nothing was ported. Nobody will need to recompile this package. This
> package only installs some additional locale and syscons tables and
> script for their activation.
> In general, this tables wold be added to a src/share tree, but the
> package is version independant and may be applied to any pre-installed
> 2.X-5.X FreeBSD box as an easy workaround.
The /usr tree is touched only by parts of the base system. Ports and
packages go in /usr/local (or wherever you have them set to be
installed). By the description of this (addition of a new locale
table) it looks like a good candidate for inclusion in the base
system. I think you should use send-pr(1) for it :-)
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