Bob Eager wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:32 -0700 > Patrick Powell <papow...@astart.com> wrote: > > >> Mathias, I think that brief description of how you did this would be >> VERY useful to some of us looking at this problem and not knowing >> where to start. Perhaps an: 'this is the way it was' and a 'this is >> the way it should be' document would be good. Or even a list of >> links to 'helpful hints' documents. >> > > Looking at already-done ports is good. > > Someone has kindly done one of mine for me so I did a diff on that. > Pretty simple example but gives you the idea. > > FWIW, the port in question is textproc/ml1 >
Just as a comment to this - I did my first the other day and most of my time spent trying to decipher the messages of how to make them 'go away' ... First was the fact I couldn't seem to find any documentation on pkg-plist - what it is, what should be in it etc... Second was the 'Orphaned' vs 'Missing' messages - especially as I had followed the docs and couldn't (for 12 hours) find the fact that putting in "PORTDOCS" settings you remove the corresponding entries in the pkg-plist file... That all said - I don't know how one would make it easier to 'get' as most of the docs are very explicit.. with the exception of documenting pkg-plist (or making it googleable.) my $0.02.. ;-) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
