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Add comments on adding info about language specific ports and

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compiled-in defaults to packages.  Closes PR docs/1439.

Submitted by:	"David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> (some mods by me)
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<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.20 1996/05/16 23:18:08 mpp Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.21 1996/05/24 19:33:33 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading>
@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ The pattern is the year followed by the month.
# Date created: 5 December 1994
# Whom: asami
#
# $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.20 1996/05/16 23:18:08 mpp Exp $
# $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.21 1996/05/24 19:33:33 jfieber Exp $
#
DISTNAME= oneko-1.1b
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person who wrote this Makefile]
# Whom: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
#
# $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.20 1996/05/16 23:18:08 mpp Exp $
# $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.21 1996/05/24 19:33:33 jfieber Exp $
[ ^^^^ do not worry about this...it will be automatically filled in by CVS
when it is committed to our repository]
#
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easy to scan, as there are already lots and lots of packages
and users are going to turn away if they hurt their eyes!
<p>If your <tt>&dollar;{DISTNAME}</tt> does not look like
`<tt>&lt;name&gt;-&lt;version.string.numbers&gt;</tt>', set
<tt>&dollar;{PKGNAME}</tt> to something in that format.
<p>The package name should look like
<tscreen><verb>
[<language>-]<name>[-<compiled.specifics>]-<version.string.numbers>;
</verb></tscreen>
If your <tt>&dollar;{DISTNAME}</tt> doesn't look like that,
set <tt>&dollar;{PKGNAME}</tt> to something in that format.
<enum>
<item>FreeBSD strives to support the native language of its
users. The `&lt;language&gt;' part should be a two letter
abbreviation of the natural language if the port is specific
to a certain language. Examples are `jp' for Japanese and
`ru' for Russian.
<item>The `<tt>&lt;name&gt;</tt>' part should be all
lowercases, except for a really large package (with lots of
programs in it). Things like XFree86 (yes there really is a
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really is called that way, you can have numbers, hyphens and
underscores in the name too.
<item>If the port can be built with different hardcoded
defaults (usually specified as environment variables or on
the `<tt>make</tt>' command line), the
`&lt;compiled.specifics&gt;' part should state the
compiled-in defaults (the hyphen is optional). Examples are
papersize and font units.
<item>The version string should be a period-separated list of
integers and single lowercase alphabets. The only exception
is the string `pl' (meaning `patchlevel'), which can be used
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<tt>&dollar;{PKGNAME}</tt>:
<tscreen><verb>
DISTNAME PKGNAME Reason
mule-2.2.2 mule-2.2.2 no prob at all
XFree86-3.1.2 XFree86-3.1.2 ditto
EmiClock-1.0.2 emiclock-1.0.2 no uppercase names for single programs
gmod1.4 gmod-1.4 need hyphen after `<name>'
xmris.4.02 xmris-4.02 ditto
rdist-1.3alpha rdist-1.3a no strings like `alpha' allowed
es-0.9-beta1 es-0.9b1 ditto
v3.3beta021.src jpeg-5a what the heck was that anyway? ;)
tvtwm tvtwm-pl11 version string always required
piewm piewm-1.0 ditto
xvgr-2.10pl1 xvgr-2.10.1 `pl' allowed only when no maj/minor numbers
DISTNAME PKGNAME Reason
mule-2.2.2 mule-2.2.2 no prob at all
XFree86-3.1.2 XFree86-3.1.2 ditto
EmiClock-1.0.2 emiclock-1.0.2 no uppercase names for single programs
gmod1.4 gmod-1.4 need hyphen after `<name>'
xmris.4.02 xmris-4.02 ditto
rdist-1.3alpha rdist-1.3a no strings like `alpha' allowed
es-0.9-beta1 es-0.9b1 ditto
v3.3beta021.src jpeg-5a what the heck was that anyway? ;)
tvtwm tvtwm-pl11 version string always required
piewm piewm-1.0 ditto
xvgr-2.10pl1 xvgr-2.10.1 `pl' allowed only when no maj/minor numbers
gawk-2.15.6 jp-gawk-2.15.6 Japanese language version
psutils-1.13 psutils-letter-1.13 papersize hardcoded at package build time
pkfonts pkfonts300-1.0 package for 300dpi fonts
</verb></tscreen>
<p>If there is absolutely no trace of version information in the