Porting new Software into FreeBSD

[Mike Jeays]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 02:12, Eric Crist wrote:
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> >> have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body
> >> tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this?
> >>
> >> The new software is called RURS (Remote Unix Recovery Service).
> Simply
> >> said, it is the same as WINDOWS Gost utility.
> >
> > we already have dd and rsh. it's of course not the same as
> > WINDOWS Gost (or maybe ghost). it's much better and fer much
> > easier to use. _______________________________________________
> 
> IMHO, It shouldn't be about what we (the freebsd community) already
> have, but what others have to offer.  Please just help point him in the
> right direction (I don't know in this case), rather than say, 'We
> already have something like that, go away.'  This RURS application *may*
> be better in some ways than dd or rsh alone.
> 
> Thanks for being a part of the community.
> 
> Eric F Crist
> 
> 
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How about "g4u", a "Ghost for Unix" application that is described in Dru
Lavigne's new book "BSD Hacks", and which is available from
http://theatomicmoose.ca/g4u. I haven't tried it, and don't see it in
the ports collection, but it sounds as if it does a similar job to RURS.