From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 30 2:24:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from k6n1.znh.org (unknown [207.109.235.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA7815A8C for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 02:23:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@uffdaonline.net) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA09168; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:20:05 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19990330042005.A9075@znh.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 04:20:05 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Brett Glass , Laurence Berland , security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virus Announcements 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990329175542.00c88430@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:09:45PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message