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                     17: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD Porting Checklist</font></h2>
                     18:
                     19: This document describes how to make or upgrade a port.  It is a useful
1.33      pvalchev   20: reminder of things to do.  This is neither totally accurate nor perfect.
1.45    ! jsyn       21: Direct comments and questions to <a href="mailto:ports@openbsd.org">
        !            22: ports@openbsd.org</a>.
1.20      turan      23:
                     24: <hr>
                     25: <ol>
                     26:
1.22      rohee      27: <li>
1.20      turan      28: If you want to be a maintainer, subscribe to
                     29: <a href="mailto:ports@openbsd.org"> ports@openbsd.org.</a>
                     30: <ul><li>
                     31: This is where all ports discussions take place.
                     32: <li>
                     33: Reading this list is important since many announcements go over this list.
                     34: <li>
1.33      pvalchev   35: You will find a lot of porting-savvy people there.  They can often give you
1.20      turan      36: good advice or test ports for you.
                     37: </ul>
                     38:
1.22      rohee      39: <br><li>
1.29      espie      40: Being a maintainer means <strong>more</strong> than just submitting ports.
                     41: It also means trying to keep them up-to-date, and to answer questions about
                     42: them.
                     43:
1.45    ! jsyn       44: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan      45: Check out a copy of the ports tree from cvs.
1.33      pvalchev   46: You can find instructions on how to do this at
1.20      turan      47: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html">
                     48: http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html</a>.
                     49:
1.22      rohee      50: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan      51: Pick a place to put your port and create the basic
                     52: infrastructure there.  Use the template Makefile at
                     53: <code>/usr/ports/infrastructure/templates/Makefile.template</code>.
1.44      pvalchev   54: NEED_VERSION is obsolete and should not be used in new ports.
                     55: As you are a port developer, you are supposed to update
                     56: your ports tree, including bsd.port.mk.
1.20      turan      57: <ul><li>
1.40      naddy      58: Create the directories <code>patches, pkg</code>.
1.20      turan      59: <li>
1.45    ! jsyn       60: Create the empty files <code>pkg/DESCR, pkg/PLIST</code>.
1.20      turan      61: </ul>
                     62:
1.22      rohee      63: <br><li>
1.20      turan      64: Add the fetch portions of the Makefile.
                     65: <ul><li>
1.37      pvalchev   66: Fill in EXTRACT_SUFX if it's anything besides .tar.gz.  Other examples are
1.20      turan      67: .tar.Z, or .tgz.
                     68: <li>
1.45    ! jsyn       69: Fill in DISTNAME which is the name of the file minus the extract suffix.
        !            70: E.g., if you have foo-1.0.tar.gz, DISTNAME is foo-1.0.
1.20      turan      71: <li>
                     72: Fill in MASTER_SITES which is a URL to the directory where the distfile
1.45    ! jsyn       73: is kept.  E.g., ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/.
        !            74: <strong>Don't forget the trailing slash.</strong>
        !            75: Try to have at least three distinct sites as well.
1.20      turan      76: Place the most easily accessible first as they are traversed in order.
                     77: <li>
                     78: Keep in mind that fetch references the file as
1.32      naddy      79: ${MASTER_SITES}${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}.  All three are used.  Don't
1.20      turan      80: set DISTNAME to point to the file directly.
                     81: <li>
1.33      pvalchev   82: You can check to see if you have filled these values in correctly by typing
1.45    ! jsyn       83: <b>make fetch-all</b>.
1.20      turan      84: </ul>
                     85: <p>
                     86: For more complex ports, you have more options and tools available to you:
                     87: <ul><li>
                     88: You also have the variable PATCHFILES available.  This is a list of vendor
1.22      rohee      89: (not OpenBSD) patches to the port.  Common uses are things like security
1.20      turan      90: or reliability fixes.
                     91: <li>
                     92: If your ports are available over large public mirrors such as GNU, SunSite, or
                     93: CPAN, we have already provided a list of sites for your use in
                     94: /usr/ports/infrastructure/template/network.conf.template.
                     95: Set MASTER_SITES to ${MASTER_SITE_GNU}, or ${MASTER_SITE_SUNSITE}, etc.
1.42      pvalchev   96: To simplify this process, use the construct ${MASTER_SITE_FOO:=subdir/} to
                     97: append the distribution subdirectory.
1.20      turan      98: <li>
                     99: Ports normally correspond to given versions of software. Once they are retrieved, files are checksummed and compared to the recorded
1.40      naddy     100: checksum(s) in distinfo. So, to avoid confusion, DISTFILES and PATCHFILES should have clearly visible version numbers:
1.20      turan     101: don't retrieve foo-latest.tar.gz if it is a link to foo-1.0.5.tar.gz. If necessary, gently ask the original program author
                    102: to make such distinctions clear.
                    103: <li>
                    104: If a given port needs more than about 5 DISTFILES + PATCHFILES to work, use DIST_SUBDIR to avoid cluttering
                    105: /usr/ports/distfiles too much.
                    106: <li>
                    107: DIST_SUBDIR must not include version numbers. When the port is updated to a later version, some distfiles may not change, but will be
                    108: refetched if DIST_SUBDIR is changed. Even if all distfiles change, it is easier for the user to track cruft.
                    109: <li>
                    110: All DISTFILES and PATCHFILES don't necessarily come from the same set of MASTER_SITES. Supplementary sites can be
                    111: defined using the variables MASTER_SITES0 to MASTER_SITES9. Just write DISTFILES=foo-1.0.5.tar.gz:5 to
                    112: retrieve foo-1.0.5.tar.gz from MASTER_SITES5.
                    113: <li>
                    114: Some ports don't always need to retrieve all files in all circumstances. For instance, some ports may have some compilation options, and
                    115: associated files which are only required in such a case. Or they may need some files for some architectures only. In such a case, those
                    116: supplementary optional files must be mentioned in the SUPDISTFILES variable. Targets such as makesum or
                    117: mirror-distfiles will fetch those supplementary files that the casual user doesn't need.
                    118: </ul>
1.1       marc      119:
1.22      rohee     120: <br><li>
1.40      naddy     121: Create a checksum in <i>distinfo</i> by typing <b>make makesum</b>.
1.45    ! jsyn      122: Then verify the checksum is correct by typing <b>make checksum</b>.
1.20      turan     123: <ul><li>
                    124: In some rare cases, files checksums can't be verified reliably. By all means, porters should try to find sites that are reliable. Communicating
                    125: with the software author and the archive site maintainer at this stage is highly desirable. In the worst case, non-checksummable files can be
                    126: mentioned in the IGNOREFILES variable.
                    127: <li>
                    128: All files in DISTFILES are usually processed during make extract. EXTRACT_ONLY may be used to limit extraction to a
                    129: subset of files (possibly empty). The customary use of this variable is to customize extraction: for instance, if some DISTFILES need
                    130: some special treatment, they will be removed from EXTRACT_ONLY and handled manually at post-extract stage.
                    131: For historic reasons, make extract does set up the working directory first along with extracting files. Thus, providing a
                    132: pre-extract or a do-extract target is highly unusual (and fairly suspicious behavior, indicative of a high degree of obfuscation
                    133: in the port).
                    134: <li>
                    135: Patches that need specific treatment should be mentioned in DISTFILES, and removed from EXTRACT_ONLY, for historic reasons.
                    136: </ul>
1.1       marc      137:
1.22      rohee     138: <br><li>
1.20      turan     139: Extract the port with <b>make extract</b>.  Pay attention to where the base
1.38      pvalchev  140: of the sources are.  Usually, it's <i>w-${PKGNAME}${FLAVOR_EXT}/${DISTNAME}</i>. You may need to
                    141: modify the Makefile's WRKDIST variable if it is different.
1.9       espie     142:
1.22      rohee     143: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     144: Read the installation documentation and note what you have to do to build
                    145: the port and any special options that might be needed.
1.22      rohee     146:
                    147: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     148: Now is also a good time to figure out what kind of licensing restrictions
1.33      pvalchev  149: apply to your port.  Many are freely redistributable but then again, quite
1.20      turan     150: a few are not.  We need four questions answered to distribute ports
                    151: properly.  These are the PERMIT_* values in the Makefile.
                    152: <ul><li>
                    153: PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM tells us if we can put the package on the cdrom.
                    154: <li>
                    155: PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP tells us if we can put the package on the ftp sites.
                    156: <li>
                    157: PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM tells us if we can mirror the distfiles on the cdrom.
                    158: <li>
                    159: PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP tells us if we can mirror the distfiles on the ftp sites.
1.45    ! jsyn      160: </ul>
        !           161: <p>
1.20      turan     162: Set these values to Yes if it is permitted or to a comment string stating why
                    163: it is not.  Pay attention to any special conditions you may need to fulfill
1.45    ! jsyn      164: later on.  E.g., some ports require to install a copy of the license.  We
1.20      turan     165: recommend you place the license in <code>/usr/local/share/DISTNAME/</code>.
                    166:
1.22      rohee     167: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     168: Add configuration options to Makefile and/or create the configuration script.
                    169: <ul><li>
                    170: You can add a port configuration script named `configure' to a directory
                    171: named <code>scripts/</code>. This will be run before any configuration
1.40      naddy     172: specified by CONFIGURE_STYLE is run.
1.20      turan     173: <li>
1.40      naddy     174: If GNU configure is used you may want to run ./configure --help
1.20      turan     175: to see what options are available.
                    176: <li>
                    177: Anything that you may want to override can be changed by adding the
                    178: --option flags to the CONFIGURE_ARGS parameter in the Makefile.
                    179: <li>
                    180: Use CONFIGURE_ARGS+= to append to the variable.  CONFIGURE_ARGS= will
                    181: overwrite it.
                    182: </ul>
                    183:
1.22      rohee     184: <br><li>
1.20      turan     185: Try building the port with <b>make build</b>.
                    186: <ul><li>
                    187: If you're lucky, the port will go all the way through without errors.
                    188: <li>
                    189: If it exits with an error, you will need to generate patches for your port.
1.33      pvalchev  190: Figure out what needs to be changed and make a patch for it.
1.20      turan     191: <li>
                    192: Patches must be relative to ${WRKDIST}.
                    193: <li> The easiest way to reset the port and test your patches is
                    194: <b>make clean patch</b>. This will delete the work directory, re-extract,
                    195: and patch your port.
                    196: </ul>
                    197:
1.22      rohee     198: <br><li>
1.26      reinhard  199: Begin and cycle of <b>make build</b>, generate a patch (or use <b>make
                    200: update-patches</b>), and
1.20      turan     201: <b>make clean patch</b>.
                    202: <ul><li>
                    203: Patches go in the directory <i>patches/</i> and should be named patch-* with
                    204: * being something meaningful.  We recommend you name your patches
1.26      reinhard  205: patch-FILENAME where FILENAME is the name of the file it is patching.
                    206: (<tt>make update-patches</tt> does this automatically for you.)
1.20      turan     207: <li>
                    208: Applying PATCHFILES is the first half of the make patch stage. It can be
                    209: invoked separately as make distpatch, which is a convenient target for
                    210: porters. Ignore this if you haven't set it.
                    211: <li>
                    212: Only patch one source file per patchfile, please,
                    213: <li>
1.40      naddy     214: Use <b>make update-patches</b> to generate patches,
1.20      turan     215: <li>
                    216: All patches MUST be relative to ${WRKDIST},
                    217: <li>
                    218: Check that patches <strong>DON'T</strong> contain tags that cvs
                    219: will replace.  If they do, your patches won't apply after you check
                    220: them in.  You can check in your changes with -kk to avoid this.
                    221: <li>
                    222: Add a small explanation of the patch role in the patchfile before
                    223: the patch itself, and an OpenBSD CVS tag <code>&#36;OpenBSD&#36;</code>.
                    224: <li>
                    225: <b>Please</b> feed your patches back to the author of that piece of software.
                    226: </ul>
                    227:
1.22      rohee     228: <br><li>
1.45    ! jsyn      229: Try setting <code>SEPARATE_BUILD</code>.
1.20      turan     230: <ul><li>
                    231: If the port can build with object files outside its source tree,
1.40      naddy     232: this is cleaner (many programs using <code>CONFIGURE_STYLE=gnu</code> can),
1.20      turan     233: and may help people who mount their ports tree on several arches.
                    234: <li>
                    235: This can also spare you some effort, as you will possibly be able to
                    236: restart the cycle at <code>configure</code> most of the time.
                    237: </ul>
                    238:
1.22      rohee     239: <br><li>
1.20      turan     240: Peruse the output (if any) and tweak any options in the Makefile.
                    241: To repeat issue the command `<b>make clean configure</b>'.
                    242: <p>
1.45    ! jsyn      243: Note: make sure host-dependent files go in <i>/etc</i> or
        !           244: <i>/etc/&lt;name&gt;</i>, but <strong>NEVER REPLACE OR MODIFY</strong>
        !           245: existing files in <i>/etc</i>.  Best to have install place them
1.20      turan     246: in <i>/usr/local/share/&lt;name&gt;</i> and then copy to
                    247: <i>/etc</i> or <i>/etc/&lt;name&gt;</i> only if the files do not exist.
                    248: If the files exist, display a message that says such-and-such files need
                    249: to be modified.  This also guarantees that the files will be included in
1.40      naddy     250: the package since everything under <i>/usr/local</i> is included in the PLIST.
                    251: After a package has been installed the contents of <code>pkg/MESSAGE</code>
                    252: will be displayed if it exists.
1.20      turan     253:
                    254: <p>
                    255: The OpenBSD file locations are:
                    256: <pre>
1.1       marc      257:    user executables:                   /usr/local/bin
                    258:    system admin executables:           /usr/local/sbin
                    259:    program executables:                        /usr/local/libexec
                    260:    libraries                           /usr/local/lib
1.14      rohee     261:    architecture dependent data         /usr/local/lib/&lt;name&gt;
1.1       marc      262:    installed include files:            /usr/local/include or
1.14      rohee     263:                                        /usr/local/include/&lt;name&gt;
                    264:    single-machine data:                        /etc or /etc/&lt;name&gt;
1.1       marc      265:    local state:                                /var/run
1.35      brad      266:    games score files:                  /var/games
1.1       marc      267:    GNU info files:                     /usr/local/info
                    268:    man pages:                          /usr/local/man/...
1.14      rohee     269:    read-only architecture-independent: /usr/local/share/&lt;name&gt;
                    270:    misc documentation:                 /usr/local/share/doc/&lt;name&gt;
1.20      turan     271: </pre>
1.9       espie     272:
1.22      rohee     273: <li>
1.20      turan     274: Begin a cycle of makes until the port is ready.  Patch (see above)
                    275: clean, and make until the port is generated.  Get rid of all warnings
                    276: if possible, especially security related warnings.
1.22      rohee     277:
                    278: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     279: Control SEPARATE_BUILD semantics.
                    280: You have to do this only if the port builds with
                    281: SEPARATE_BUILD defined.
1.45    ! jsyn      282: Ideally, the port should not modify any file in
1.20      turan     283: ${WRKSRC} after <b>make patch</b>.
                    284: You can check this by making sure you don't have any write access
                    285: to ${WRKSRC}. Then you can set
1.45    ! jsyn      286: <code>SEPARATE_BUILD=concurrent</code> -- someone can use the same
1.20      turan     287: source tree to build on distinct arches simultaneously.
1.45    ! jsyn      288: Otherwise, set <code>SEPARATE_BUILD=simple</code> -- building on
        !           289: distinct arches simultaneously may be met with problems, as some
1.20      turan     290: source files may be regenerated at awkward moments.
1.9       espie     291:
1.22      rohee     292: <br><br><li>
1.31      reinhard  293: Add <i>COMMENT</i> in Makefile.
1.20      turan     294: COMMENT is a <strong>SHORT</strong> one-line description of the port
1.24      espie     295: (max. 60 characters). Do <strong>NOT</strong> include the package
                    296: name (or version number of the software) in the comment.
                    297: Do <strong>NOT</strong> start with an uppercase letter
1.45    ! jsyn      298: unless semantically significant, and
1.24      espie     299: do <strong>NOT</strong> end with a period.
1.45    ! jsyn      300: <strong>DON'T EVER START WITH AN INDETERMINATE ARTICLE SUCH AS `a' or `as';
1.24      espie     301: remove the article altogether.</strong>
1.31      reinhard  302:
                    303: <br><br><li>
                    304: Edit <i>pkg/DESCR</i>, <i>pkg/PLIST</i>.
1.45    ! jsyn      305: <ul><li>
1.20      turan     306: DESCR is a longer description of the port. One to a few paragraphs
1.39      jufi      307: concisely explaining what the port does is sufficient. It is also advised to
                    308: wrap your lines at 80 characters. This can be done by first editing the DESCR
                    309: file and then running it through 'fmt -w 80'.
1.20      turan     310: <li>
                    311: PLIST is kept empty at this point.
                    312: </ul>
                    313:
1.22      rohee     314: <br><li>
1.45    ! jsyn      315: Install the application with <b>make install</b>.
1.20      turan     316: If the port installs dynamic libraries, check their symbol tables
                    317: with <code>nm</code>, as some mistaken software strips dynamic libraries,
1.34      jsyn      318: which may lead to weird failures later. On the other hand, executable binaries
                    319: SHOULD be stripped; <code>file</code> can be used to determine this.  If the
                    320: port already contains code for stripping binaries, use it (i.e., an
                    321: 'install-strip' target); otherwise, add a provision in the port Makefile.
1.20      turan     322:
1.22      rohee     323: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     324: <strong>Check port for security holes again</strong>. This is
                    325: especially important for network and setuid programs. See
                    326: <a href="porting.html#security">our security recommendations</a>
                    327: for that. Log interesting stuff and fixes in the
                    328: <code>pkg/SECURITY</code> file.  This file
                    329: should list audited potential problems, along with relevant patches,
                    330: so that another person can see at first glance what has been done.
                    331: Example:
1.14      rohee     332: <pre>
                    333:       &#36;OpenBSD&#36;
1.9       espie     334:
                    335:       ${WRKDIR}/receiver.c
                    336:          call to mktemp (wrapper function do_mktemp) does seem to be correct.
                    337:
                    338:       The server makes extensive use of strlcpy/strlcat/snprintf.
1.20      turan     339: </pre>
                    340:
1.22      rohee     341: <li>
1.20      turan     342: Create pkg/PLIST.  After the install is complete use the developer's command,
1.33      pvalchev  343: <b>make plist</b> which makes the file PLIST in the <i>pkg</i> directory.
1.20      turan     344: This file is a candidate packing list.
                    345: <p>
                    346: Beware! The files are found by timestamp.  This means it does NOT:
1.45    ! jsyn      347: <ul><li>
1.20      turan     348: list any files installed with `tar' as their timestamp
1.45    ! jsyn      349: will not change and thus won't be found by `find'.
1.20      turan     350: <li>
                    351: Update the <code>info/dir</code> file if .info files are added.
                    352: Also, be sure that the <code>info/dir</code> is not part of the PLIST.
                    353: <li>
                    354: Try to do anything special with links or symbolic links.  A
                    355: cursory test of tar shows it does the right thing with links
                    356: and symbolic links so I don't see why we need to special case
                    357: anything in the packing list.  But still...
                    358: </ul>
                    359: <p>
1.33      pvalchev  360: Peruse `PLIST' and verify that everything was installed and
1.20      turan     361: that it was installed in the proper locations.  Anything not installed
                    362: can be added to a port Makefile `post-install' rule.
                    363:
                    364: <p>
1.45    ! jsyn      365: Ports that install shared libraries will have another file called PFRAG.shared.
        !           366: <ul><li>
1.33      pvalchev  367: PLIST describes the files being independent of whether the architecture supports shared libraries or not.
                    368: <li>
                    369: PFRAG.shared describes only the files being additionally installed on those architectures that support
1.20      turan     370: shared libraries.
                    371: <li>
1.33      pvalchev  372: PFRAG.noshared describes only the files being additionally installed on architectures that do not
                    373: support shared libraries.
1.20      turan     374: </ul>
                    375:
1.22      rohee     376: <br><li>
1.45    ! jsyn      377: Keep repeating uninstall and reinstall until perfect.
1.20      turan     378: <em>Perfect</em> is when everything installs and uninstalls
                    379: in its proper location.  `pkg_delete &lt;pkg_name&gt;' is
                    380: used to uninstall.  `sudo make reinstall' is used to reinstall.  See the
                    381: `pkg_create' man page for other commands that may be added
1.45    ! jsyn      382: to PLIST to ensure all is cleaned up.  After an uninstall the command:
        !           383: <pre>
        !           384: $ find /usr/local -newer w-${PKGNAME}${FLAVOR_EXT}/fake-${MACHINE_ARCH}[-${FLAVOR}]/.install_started -print
        !           385: </pre>
        !           386: should only list standard directory names.
1.20      turan     387:
1.22      rohee     388: <br><br><li>
1.45    ! jsyn      389: Test the packaging.
1.20      turan     390: After the port installs correctly issue the command
                    391: <code>make package</code> to create a package.  To test the
                    392: package first do a <code>pkg_delete</code> and then do a
                    393: <code>pkg_add</code>   The results after an add should EXACTLY
                    394: match the results after a `make install'.
1.9       espie     395:
1.22      rohee     396: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     397: Mail <a href="mailto:ports@openbsd.org">ports@openbsd.org</a> with a short
                    398: note asking for comments and testing.  Attach the port to this email and
1.30      espie     399: sent it out.
1.20      turan     400: <p>
                    401: Try to get others to test it on a variety of platforms for you.
                    402: <ul><li>
                    403: The DEC Alpha is good  because it has only static libraries and because
1.45    ! jsyn      404: <code>sizeof(int) != sizeof(long)</code>.
1.20      turan     405: <li>
                    406: Sun SPARC is good because it is very common and because its byte order is
                    407: the reverse of i386; if you developed on SPARC, of course, you'd want it
1.45    ! jsyn      408: tested on i386.
1.20      turan     409: </ul>
                    410:
1.22      rohee     411: <br><li>
1.20      turan     412: Incorporate any feedback you get. Test it again on your platform.
                    413: Get those who gave you feedback to test it again from your new port.
                    414:
1.22      rohee     415: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     416: Finally, include it in the "ports" tree.
                    417: If you do not have CVS access, ask someone on
1.30      espie     418: <a href="mailto:ports@openbsd.org">ports@openbsd.org</a> to commit it.
1.9       espie     419:
1.22      rohee     420: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     421: If you are a developer with CVS access, check it in.
                    422: We normally use "import" for a new port,
                    423: rather than adding a zillion (or a dozen) files individually.
                    424: Import uses "vendor branch" version numbers like 1.1.1.1, but don't worry
                    425: about that! :-) If you make changes to a specific file (edit, then
                    426: cvs commit), it will be 1.2, and that will be used.
                    427: <p>
                    428: In short, import is typically used when a port is created.
                    429: From that point on cvs add and cvs rm are typically used to add or remove
                    430: files, and the normal edit->commit cycle for changes.
                    431: You might use something like this:
                    432: <pre>
1.45    ! jsyn      433: $ cd kaffe1
        !           434: $ make clean   # you really really don't want to check in all of work!
        !           435: $ cvs -d cvs.openbsd.org:/cvs import -m 'kaffe port' ports/lang/kaffe1 \
1.4       ian       436:        <I>YourName</I> <I>YourName_YYYY-MMM-DD</I>
1.20      turan     437: </pre>
                    438: <ul><li>
                    439: -d cvs.openbsd.org:/cvs says where cvs lives. This can be omitted if you
1.21      form      440: have a CVSROOT environment variable defined.
1.20      turan     441: <li>
                    442: -m 'kaffe port' is your login message.  Change it to whatever you like
                    443: <li>
                    444: ports/lang/kaffe1 is the path relative to /cvs where the port lives
                    445: <li>
1.45    ! jsyn      446: <i>YourName</i> (replaced with your login name) is the 'vendor tag'.
1.20      turan     447: You imported it so you are the vendor.
                    448: <li>
                    449: <i>YourName_YYYY-MMM-DD</i> (e.g., ian_2000-Jan-01)
                    450: is the 'vendor release tag'.  This is as good as any.
                    451: </ul>
1.45    ! jsyn      452: <br>
1.20      turan     453: As a real example, here is the output of checking in the Kaffe1 port,
                    454: which one of us did on September 8, 1998:
                    455: <pre>
1.4       ian       456: $ cd kaffe1
                    457: $ make clean >/dev/null
                    458: $ cvs import -m 'kaffe1.0(==JDK1.1) port' ports/lang/kaffe1 ian ian_1998-Sep-08
                    459: ian@cvs.openbsd.org's password: (not shown, obviously)
                    460: I ports/lang/kaffe1/CVS
                    461: I ports/lang/kaffe1/files/CVS
                    462: I ports/lang/kaffe1/pkg/CVS
                    463: N ports/lang/kaffe1/Makefile
                    464: cvs server: Importing /cvs/ports/lang/kaffe1/files
                    465: N ports/lang/kaffe1/files/md5
                    466: cvs server: Importing /cvs/ports/lang/kaffe1/pkg
                    467: N ports/lang/kaffe1/pkg/COMMENT
                    468: N ports/lang/kaffe1/pkg/DESCR
                    469: N ports/lang/kaffe1/pkg/PLIST
                    470:
                    471: No conflicts created by this import
                    472: $
1.20      turan     473: </pre>
                    474:
1.22      rohee     475: <li>
1.20      turan     476: Last but not least, add a one-line entry for the new port
1.45    ! jsyn      477: in its parent directory's Makefile, e.g., for ports/lang/kaffe1,
1.20      turan     478: add it to ports/lang/Makefile.
                    479:
1.22      rohee     480: <br><br><li>
1.20      turan     481: Maintain the port!  As time goes by, problems may arise, or new versions
                    482: of the software may be released. You should strive to keep your port up
1.22      rohee     483: to date.  In other words - iterate, test, test, iterate...
1.29      espie     484:
1.45    ! jsyn      485: <br><br><li>
1.29      espie     486: When updating a port, remember to handle dependencies! You shouldn't break any
                    487: port that depends on yours. In case of problems, communicate with the
                    488: maintainers of such ports. Likewise, be alert for dependency updates, and
                    489: check that the maintainer did their job.
1.22      rohee     490: </ol>
1.20      turan     491:
                    492: Thank you for supporting the OpenBSD "ports" process!
                    493: <hr>
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