When is a FreeBSD port not a port?

[Frank Leonhardt (m)]

On 29 October 2017 07:17:31 GMT+00:00, Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>On 10/28/2017 21:16, Shane Ambler wrote:
>> On 27/10/2017 22:46, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> On 27/10/2017 12:13, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
>>>> I've written a "few" utilities over the years that I've made
>available
>>>> in various places, but it might make sense to put them in
>>>> ports/sysutils. However, they were written on BSD and are therefore
>not
>>>> ports.
>>>>
>>>> Should I submit them anyway (if I find time to clean them up, of
>>>> course)? Or if not, any (polite) suggestions as to where I should
>put
>>>> them? I don't use GitHub or SourceForge (too old to change my ways,
>and
>>>> I normally work off-line anyway).
>>>>
>>>> e.g. http://www.fjl.co.uk/free-stuff
>>>>
>>>
>>> By all means, please do submit your FreeBSD specific code as a
>"port".
>>> There's precedent -- various ports for periodic jobs or other
>>> FreeBSD-ish things.  We aren't hung up on the precise meaning of
>"ports"
>>> -- it's really a collection of software handily prepared to compile
>>> easily and (increasingly so over time) be made available as
>pre-compiled
>>> binary packages.
>> 
>> The ports and packages system installs and manages software that is
>not
>> provided by the base system. It is really about simplifying the
>process
>> of downloading, building and installing available software.
>> 
>> The name may have originated based on the idea of "porting" software
>to
>> run on freebsd but it has grown to be more than that now. You may
>notice
>> that a lot of software in the ports tree does not need patches to run
>on
>> freebsd, so many ports are not "ported" to freebsd, just installed.
>

Thanks all. I'll get packaging.

They are often small programs to make writing shell scrips easier, such as the human readable number formatter I linked to, or things to read some system status. Five minutes to write, one hour to package and one day to write the man page ;-)

Regards, Frank.
 
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