At BSDCon 2000, I had a chance to speak with people at the NetBSD 
booth.  We chatted briefly about including the NetBSD ports tree within 
FreshPorts <http://freshports.org/>.  For those unfamiliar, FreshPorts 
tracks the FreeBSD ports tree but has been designed with any ports 
tree in mind.  All that is needed is the feed from that tree.  Registered 
users are periodically notified of any changes to ports they wish to 
watch.

Work on the next version of FreshPorts has begun.  The goal is to 
include all of the source tree, not just ports.  Part of this work includes 
the creation an XML template (DTD).  XML will be the new method for 
getting data into FreshPorts and will present a consistent interface for 
all systems.  I suspect the content of the source-changes mailing list 
will be sufficient for this purpose.  Any tree wishing to be part of 
FreshPorts merely needs to complete an XML document for each 
change to the tree and submit it to the system.

If anyone wishes to take up the torch and make it possible for NetBSD 
to be included within FreshPorts, their first port of call should be to join 
the develop@freshports.org mailing list by sending a message to 
majordomo@freshports.org with "subscribe develop" in the body of the 
message.

But I'm quite happy to answer any questions, either posted to netbsd-
ports or directly to me, if people wish to ask.

cheers

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Dan Langille
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