Subject: Re: Help please, my first package port
To: None <netbsd-ports@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 09/07/1999 06:49:43
In article <178984252.3875446066.164@km_mail.kemper.org>,
John A. Maier <johnam@kemper.org> wrote:
>I am attempting my first package (FSviewer) for NetBSD and have gotten
>along quite well with the info from the packages.txt file.
>
>1) I can get it to fetch, patch and build. Now I need to install. I
>need to generate the PLIST file. There aren't any recommendations on how
>this is easily done.
>2) There is an auxiliary icon.tar.gz that needs to be retrieved,
>extracted and installed. Can this be done in the same package? I can't
>quite figure this one out.
Yes, you just add it to the list of files to be retrieved.
>3) Once it's done, to whom do I submit?
Great! Submit it using send-pr.
christos