On May 24th, 2010, License support files (bsd.licenses.mk and bsd.licenses.db.mk) from Google Summer of Code 2008/2009 were committed. Unfortunately, the Porters Handbook has not been updated to reflect this change. For information on how to incorporate these new KNOBs into your ports, please review the Ports License Auditing Infrastructure page on the FreeBSD Wiki.
Posts tagged Ports
Reflections after one year
Today marks my 1 year anniversary as a FreeBSD developer. I opened my first Problem Report in 2006 and after roughly three years of hacking on the ports system, wxs@ offered to mentor me and on March 11th, 2009 I received an email saying that the port-mgr@ team approved his request for a commit bit [...]
Sun V210 Donation
Thanks to a generous donation by Nathan Whitehorn, a Sun SunFire v210 is sitting on the floor of my office waiting to have FreeBSD installed on it. Since this is the fastest sparc64 machine we have, Mark Linimon and I are planning on using it as a package building machine. However, if there is any [...]
Adopt a FreeBSD Port
The FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection offers an easy and consistent way of installing software packages on FreeBSD and is a very important component of the operating system as a whole. There are currently 4726 ports with MAINTAINER set to ports at freebsd.org, which means that no one is actively maintaining them. Out of these [...]
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