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<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://cvsweb.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://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/CHANGES">CHANGES</A> file.
Changes that affect individual ports are now documented in the
<A HREF="http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/UPDATING">UPDATING</A> file.
However, the definitive answer to any question is undoubtedly to read
the source code of <A HREF="http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk">
bsd.port.mk</A>, and associated files.
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