How to submit a new port along with its distfile?

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Fri Mar 2 17:00:31 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:43:38 -0500
Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:

> 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?

You gave me an idea: I put it up on Sourceforge.  About to submit the
port now.

Thanks!

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net


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