From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 12:22:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BAD1065675 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:22:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca) Received: from n13.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n13.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 150478FC1C for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [209.191.108.97] by n13.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Jul 2010 12:22:02 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.72] by t4.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Jul 2010 12:22:02 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp424.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Jul 2010 12:22:02 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 583170.65141.bm@omp424.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 30424 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2010 12:22:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Subject:From:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=W8kfC0EUBeSTJQ+AHq8nkB9SfyhJ99rGhUWuuLWUjRgvn1ZIRLJnXKOdQvdQtk84SmeNYT4QnxWA+db8RA/xeR9A7u/QOMHJlbI/eU1O0NHEFhDC1gW76QGwViwWUUIRWh9NFegsx8TS7Hum32zFEIb0fyYYNLWsylLWC8Dq1so= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1279887722; bh=paEQIPgeWt90vAE4P2Uof67N51eVhppWFxRUD2POlGQ=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Subject:From:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=KeX0PQj113g/tUMAbjPblFvxPWBhMRQD8U+xV8KqfCgpeFY64jYS8w0f8FdNt9scostOaj4HT5OfV23V4qqoUtKAdjO2fMlepZ/oCGKAPmxcfnwzU2a/cWgyEkXp8olLTa5bASiEBGwEVRuUxg7COGEFvvf0nwrr8zL78fLRvWI= Received: from [192.168.0.103] (jessefrgsmith@71.7.176.238 with plain) by smtp143.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 2010 05:22:02 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: NPm1JouswBClX_uJxHJINmnKUpROdMKvLL0- X-YMail-OSG: KlLC5PUVM1nhX2g5FkYtu7qbz8rrTs.yZIVVvY9K_mL18Hp ywNAlnHQ5a2G4um_DjifJNlGAKrxL1agBnprVDqv3naGZzN7LerVs0fV2AkR yw5VReGHXrHtxL_ju74A28KtOmbIPyyjAYrbOBj4tEc42Oidy1UyHx_lUSl4 jsdmCouLrcH.r8sr2GjfgY8o_90ZAMXOTyxD9oLZjTnbMNK_8Sjyl_g4IO2a fLV14j0mH8z8GZ.6WsWyBeMgpmwZILfkIBTss_M7eFhn8VdRSUziy9wAz8Be 6yqDL3LOcfsdXbIguXeiOB3g- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Jesse Smith To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:21:54 -0300 Message-ID: <1279887714.2909.7.camel@hp-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: usage of shar command X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:22:03 -0000 I would like to see a little clarification on the handling of shar in the handbook. Not a lot, but maybe a few examples. Most of the pages on porting up to that point I found pretty clear, but that part I found a little vague. There's a line which says something like "attach the shar output to your PR report" and I found myself going back and re-reading that paragraph. Even if there's just a small example like: You can create a shar (shell archive) by running shar `find your_port_dir` To store this output in a text file for easy uploading to your port request, use shar `find your_port_dir` > myfile.txt It may seem like spoon feeding, but I think it would help clear things up a little. Really, we want more people working on ports, don't we?