I'm trying to teach myself how to build a FreeBSD port and, with a lot
of help from the manual, it's going well. I have a question though
concerning policy/style.
I'm trying to port a program which is distributed in two separate
packages from the upstream project. One package contains the
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Jesse Smith wrote:
I'm trying to teach myself how to build a FreeBSD port and, with a lot
of help from the manual, it's going well. I have a question though
concerning policy/style.
I'm trying to port a program which is distributed in two
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:58:50 -0300
Jesse Smith jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I'm trying to port a program which is distributed in two separate
packages from the upstream project. One package contains the
executable program and the other contains data files. The Data
package rarely changes.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:17:46AM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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Jesse Smith wrote:
I'm trying to teach myself how to build a FreeBSD port and, with a lot
of help from the manual, it's going well. I have a question though
concerning
--On Friday, June 11, 2010 10:58:50 -0300 Jesse Smith jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca
wrote:
I'm trying to teach myself how to build a FreeBSD port and, with a lot
of help from the manual, it's going well. I have a question though
concerning policy/style.
I'm trying to port a program which is
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From: Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net
To: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org
Cc: Jesse Smith jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca, freebsd-ports
freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Data files and ports
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:41:45 +0300
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:17:46AM -0400
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:29:18 -0300Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:41:45 +0300, Jesse Smith
wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied. There were some good points made all
around. Let's say that I do decide to go with the idea of making the
Data files a separate port. How do I tell the Ports system not to try
