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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 04:20:05 -0600
From:      Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virus Announcements
Message-ID:  <19990330042005.A9075@znh.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990329175542.00c88430@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:09:45PM -0700
References:  <4.2.0.32.19990329155900.00a557c0@localhost> <4.2.0.32.19990329164244.04553770@localhost> <37001F1B.C2B92D74@confusion.net> <4.2.0.32.19990329175542.00c88430@localhost>

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On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:09:45PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> In the meantime, who here knows the arcana of how to build a package?
> I've looked at the innards of a couple of tarballs but have no idea
> how to specify dependencies, pop up a message to tell the user what to
> do next, test for the right version of Perl (you need Perl5 and some
> FreeBSD users have Perl4), etc.  There don't seem to be any docs.

You did look in the top part of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk , right?  It
does a fair job of documenting what needs to be done for a port.

-- 
Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net>


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