Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 19:33:16 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tim Judd <tjudd2k@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ports mbone/udpcast (PR# 114061) outdated Message-ID: <200707011933.33107.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <366513.8770.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <366513.8770.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 01 July 2007, Tim Judd said: > I noticed not too long ago that mbone/udpcast was outdated (as in > more than 3 years old). Not knowing what or how to proceed with > such an outdated port, I decided to file a bug report. It seemed > the sensible thing to do. > > As you can see below, Edwin (edwin .at. FreeBSD.org) made the > change to close the ticket without much details. > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: edwin > > State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 27 07:20:48 UTC 2007 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Please submit patches > > Well, I know what patches are, but I don't think patches themselves > are able to fix the outdated port.. so I'm lost. What do I do? > > I thought since the port was extremely outdated, that someone with > a commit bit would have to setup the updated port in the CVS tree, > I can't commit them myself. I don't even know exactly what patches > are needed or where to submit them. > > So, how do I proceed? I need some tips and a hand-in-hand tutorial > on what to update and where to send the update. > > Thanks for the tips. BTW: I'm subscribed to the questions list on > a digest, I ask a CC please on all the replies. > > --Tim J. > The porters handbook is your friend :-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html You should also subscribe to freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org. That would be the correct list for port questions. Cheers, Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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