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mharo and I have gotten some more work done now. We've got a perl script that adds an entry to CVSROOT/modules and another perl script that adds the port to its category Makefile.

I'm currently working on a remote script 'addport' which will check ports as needed and do the cvs commits as well as execute the above-named scripts to add the ports to the ports tree.

Hopefully, with any luck, we'll be done with this and have a fairly polished addport suite by next friday.

The next job after that will be creating a suite of tools to assist in making new ports. I wonder how we'll decide to do that in the end...

The last few days have been a little busy. I spoke with mharo about a particular script. We're working on improving the easy-import script that is currently available on freefall.FreeBSD.org. Actually, we're working on a replacement. It is hoped that by next week FreeBSD developers will be able to import new ports remotely. We will be using a series of perl scripts to accomplish this. More to come later.

I'm hoping to help Michael Haro <mharo@FreeBSD.org> write some scripts to help make port maintaining, committing, writing, etc. easier.. anyone got ideas? :-)