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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional-Based Extension//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/xhtml10-freebsd.dtd" [
<!ENTITY title 'FreeBSD Ports -- References'>
<!ENTITY % ports.ent SYSTEM "ports.ent">
%ports.ent;
<!ENTITY email 'ports'>
%statistics.ent;
]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
<title>&title;</title>
<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
</head>
<body class="navinclude.ports">
&searchform;
<hr/>
<p>To start learning more about ports and packages, see
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html">
Installing Applications: Packages and Ports</a>, a section of the
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">
FreeBSD Handbook</a>.
</p>
<p>The
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html">
Porter's Handbook</a> is the master reference for both creating new
ports and maintaining existing ports, including a section on
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/keeping-up.html">
Keeping Up</a>. It also contains more detail about the topics below, as
well as more references for further study.
</p>
<p>You may also find the following to be useful:</p>
<ul>
<li>The archives of the
<a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/mail/current/freebsd-ports.html">
FreeBSD ports mailing list</a>.
</li>
<li>The article
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/index.html">
Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.FreshPorts.org">FreshPorts.org</a> is a
valuable tool for further information about individual ports,
such as current version, last checkin, and many other useful
statistics. You may subscribe to a mailing list to get the
latest information about your favorite ports.
</li>
<!--
<li>Here is a graph of the
<a href="growth/status.png">rapid rate of growth</a>
of the Ports Collection.</li>
-->
<li>The manual pages for
<a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp"><tt>ftp</tt></a>,
<a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add"><tt>pkg_add</tt></a>, and
<a href="&base;/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports"><tt>ports</tt></a>.
</li>
<li>The
<a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org">ports and packages build cluster</a>.
</li>
<li>The
<a href="&base;/portmgr/">Ports Management Team</a> (portmgr) pages.
</li>
<li>The
<a href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org">
Web Interface to the Source Repository</a>
allows you to browse the files in the source repository. Changes
that affect the entire port system are now documented in the
<a href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/CHANGES?view=markup">CHANGES</a> file.
Changes that affect individual ports are now documented in the
<a href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/UPDATING?view=markup">UPDATING</a> file.
However, the definitive answer to any question is undoubtedly to read
the source code of <a href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.port.mk?view=markup">
bsd.port.mk</a>, and associated files.
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>