Beginning mport Maintaining

Adding New mports

Initial Steps

First, check to see if the software is already in the MidnightBSD mports collection. A quick way to do this is by browsing the MidnightBSD web CVS mports collection. If it does exist, skip to the updating existing mports section. Similarly, you should now check to see if FreeBSD already has the software in their collection. Again, a quick way to check is using the FreeBSD Port Search page. If FreeBSD has already ported the software, this will make your job much easier.

Updating Existing mports

Updating an existing mport should be a bit easier than adding a new one.

  1. cd to /usr/mports/category/projectname

  2. Update Makefile to new version
  3. make clean
  4. make makesum
  5. make fake

Upon a successful make fake, you should see "Fake succeeded" along with other output.

Adding new mport

Updating Existing mports from FreeBSD

BeginningMports (last edited 2008-05-31 22:42:16 by smultron)