how to make a port of ex-FreeBSD code...
Chris H
bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
Tue Feb 10 23:08:14 UTC 2015
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:21:28 -0800 John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote
> Hello,
>
> I'm going to be removing bdes (and possibly enigma) from FreeBSD and
> making a port of it...
>
> What is the best way to do this?
>
> Should I fetch this from git/svn? Make a new archive of this? But if
> I create a new archive, how to distribut it (keeping it in my home dir
> is not an option, as I don't plan on maintaining it)?
>
> Is there an example of other code that was retired to the ports tree?
The only example that I can think of was fortune(6); specifically;
the "naughty" fortunes that were censored. Last I heard, someone
indicated they had ported it into ports tree.
HTH
--Chris
>
> Thanks.
>
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