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This last steps took time. Anyway here are my notes:

When we install a port, these are the steps that the process goes to:


|fetch |----> |extract| ----> |patch|----> |configure|---->|build|


Add to the recommendations: join mailing list freebsd-post. Whenever in need, there is a group of people that can help to adopt/update your port. Special note to Andrew Pantyukhin for his patience and time.

I made a tmp file in my home directory.

In it, I created a directory with the name of my port : imgseek

I copy from /usr/port/graphics/imgseek two files: Makefile and pkg-desc.

Then I started editing Makefile file.

PORTNAME= imgseek
There is no change

PORTREVISION=1
Andrew point out to the handbook to see if I should change this option. From it I read: "PORTREVISION should be increased each time a change is made to the port which significantly affects the content or structure of the derived package."
Therefore, no change

PORTVERSION=0.8.6
In my case, I just had to update the version from 0.8.4 to 0.8.6

Master_SITES=SFE
I didn't know what SFE meant.

I quick search on /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk: "more bsd.sites.mk | grep SFE" made me understand that SFE stands for SourceForge Extended. In other words, the fetch process will look into a sourceforge/$portname site and get the file.

and that is all for Makefile

File pkg-desc
No change

To create the distinfo file, I copy the tar file imgseek-0.8.6.tar.bz2 to usr/ports/distfiles and then I went to my imgseek directory cd ~/tmp/imgseek and issued the command "make checksum". That created my distinfo file.

Last file to create is pkg-plist

The handbook section 7.5 mentions the "Automated package list creation"

I started by issuing this command: "mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V imgseek)

I got following error: "illegal variable name" :(

I quick email to Andrew asking how he creates the pkg-plist file and he reponded me that depending on the application he uses "sed".

So far no pkg-plist created yet and I haven't tested if the port build up successfully.

More to come...