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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Cc: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Automated generation of /etc/resolv.conf from the rc.d 
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--On Thursday, December 20, 2007 16:44:59 +0000 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> 
wrote:
>
> On another note, what is the preferred means of getting something into
> ports? I also have dhcpcd [1] and a ports Makefile for it (dhcpcd is a
> DHCP client)
>

1) Create the port [1]
2) Submit it to the ports group [2]

> Thanks
>
> Roy
>
> PS - not currently subscribed to ports@ - should I be for this
> discussion?
>
You should if you're going to be a port maintainer.

[1] <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/>
[2] <http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html> or man (1) send-pr

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/