Re: [RP] FreeBSD ports collection fragment and RPM .spec

[Peter Pentchev]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:13:13PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was thinking about writing up a Makefile and some other files
> for ratpoison that could be put to /usr/ports/x11-wm/ratpoison
> on FreeBSD 4.x (maybe CURRENT, but I'm not finished with my
> upgrade yet), that is, it could be made a port. Then we only
> have to submit it to the FreeBSD folks (that's the tricky thing
> as I couldn't find it in the docs yet).

Submitting a FreeBSD port is easy - just send-pr from your FreeBSD
box, specify 'ports' as the category, and 'new port' as the subject/
synopsis, then place the sharball in the Fix section :)  As an alternative,
you could just mail it to me, and I could commit it after a review.

As for making the port itself, just follow the guidelines in the Porter's
Handbook on www.FreeBSD.org.  Make sure to run it through portlint
(available in the devel/portlint port) first :)

And yes, it would be great to have RP in the Ports Collection - I haven't
imported it yet only because of lack of time to keep up with the new
versions.  So go ahead :)

G'luck,
Peter

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> Another thing I could do is an RPM .spec if anyone is interested,
> however, I don't have a RedHat system around, so I can't test
> how it installs (testing how it builds is no problem).
> 
> I didn't do them yet, because if no one needs it, I won't
> spend 10 minutes on it ;)