[Announce-NYCBUG] NYC*BUG April 6th Monthly Meeting

[announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org]

April 06, 2005
Yarema: FreeBSD port maintenance

6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street

Tutorial on port maintenance: Courier on FreeBSD

The entry point for many people into BSD is using the ports system to 
install and run just about any application one could ever want on a 
server. Yarema, yds at coolrat dot org, will give an in-depth tutorial 
on how he maintains the Courier port to FreeBSD. Yarema has worked out 
kinks with getting Postfix, Mulberry, and some Ruby libraries to build 
consistently and easily. He will go line-by-line through the makefiles 
and show the audience where to find the knobs and the documentation for 
features such as the interactive configuration menus. Emphasis will be 
placed on the "Big Daddy" bsd.port.mk, which is 1/5 comments, 4/5 shell 
code. This will take you into the depths of the Makefile which is not 
covered in the Porter`s Handbook. After the talk Yarema will be taking 
questions and firing back answers... a rare opportunity for those 
interested.

After meetings, we customarily go to Denizen to discuss.  There's a map 
on the www site.

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Yes, we'll have NYC*BUG tshirts for sale for a mere $15.  Give $50 to 
the tshirts, and the profits go to the OpenBSD Hackathon fundraiser 
we're conducting.

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BSDCan 2005 will be held May 13-14th in Ottawa, Canada.

It will be the second annual event, and a number of NYC*BUG members 
plan to attend.  There is a BSDCan list at lists.nycbug.org.  You can 
get more information on the conference, and register online at 
www.bsdcan.org.