From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 23:38:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC5D6A8C; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x230.google.com (mail-ob0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4A8D1C8; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id wp18so4046088obc.7 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:38:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=a63AQKXmPfe+WpqTwXGXXxO7pC5oy1rOetCo/OqNI5s=; b=Q2KbVrW/DqBC4/2e0bAOpRZKx4UNCDBqVN3qiJgSiojbdXehs4MLz0i9KVxoGkHzCg TL+wojvYqMxt1gFdhjVZYU2Pe9TvnYKy1zXG4f1RsdSrj3cRHhladrE3d519sReVo1t7 cDwsjViU/wLAZYd98sWdwM10IzMyHbzJJqRmbDeg5/xD7/obynLI3r0RcaL8azaFzdLt /mxSWvpz5Rm8ti07iVfJsuIkNK6ydZAuGE2GdBxpuS9GFNhdg9/6EdtOLr5U8oda9fGM xNbu8kwb6L4bEhRes5K3IGogtpauamvNEGUyZlCFAvtmW5CbGEs5CwXnoVlD+2Ej3nDB dIyA== X-Received: by 10.182.43.161 with SMTP id x1mr13607678obl.5.1394926703040; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.154] (wsip-70-168-116-242.ks.ks.cox.net. [70.168.116.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qh4sm19197980obc.4.2014.03.15.16.38.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5324E46D.8050905@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:38:21 -0500 From: Ryan Frederick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: Requesting Committer Attention for ports/184011 References: <53016F1C.7060605@gmail.com> <5324C723.3060902@gmail.com> <5324CF7D.5050503@FreeBSD.org> <5324D41C.8050301@gmail.com> <5324E1A3.5050406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5324E1A3.5050406@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:38:24 -0000 On 3/15/14, 6:26 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 15/03/2014 22:28, Ryan Frederick wrote: >> I'd appreciate your help Matthew. I don't intend this patch to be an >> end-all and be-all commit but rather a stopgap commit as part of >> transitioning to a fork I've made of the original upstream >> (https://github.com/rfrederick/check_ports). The original author ended >> development three years ago, and since I use the port daily I'd like to >> bring it up to speed as far as pkgng and staging support goes. > > OK -- no problem. Adding staging support is trivial. See > > https://redports.org/browser/matthew/net-mgmt/nagios-check_ports/Makefile?rev=24309 > > If you're going to switch to a new fork of the code, then lets do that. > I take it that means you're going to want to host the distfiles > somewhere else? You can do it from github if you need to, but it's > probably easier if you just make a tarball and stick it on a webserver > somewhere. > > Anyhow, send me what you have as a diff against the current port, and we > can take it from there. Or rather, we can take it from there > /tomorrow/. Time for me to retire for the night. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > I'd like to try hosting the files from github since I'd like to try out their release functionality, but if it looks to be too much of a hassle I'll find somewhere else to host a tarball. I'm out of town right now and have a very busy week ahead of me, so I'll take things from this point when I have a chance to. Ryan