How to submit a new port along with its distfile?

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Mar 2 15:44:09 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2012 13:15, "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm ready to submit a new ports-mgmt port for a package I've written,
>> but I need to have the distfile hosted on one of the FreeBSD sites
>> (running an anonymous ftp server on my own machine would violate my
>> ISP's TOS).
>>
>> How does one go about submitting a new port under these conditions?
>> I need to submit both the port itself and the distfile.  And should I
>> set MASTER_SITES=LOCAL or MASTER_SITES=FREEBSD_ORG?
>>
>> Sorry, I couldn't find the answer to this one in the Porter's Handbook.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Normally you need to find someone prepared to host it for you.

Why not use a google code project or something like that?


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Eitan Adler


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