From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 13:42:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571C916A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:42:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl390.iae.nl [212.61.63.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F421243D58 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:42:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from [212.61.27.71] (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8BDfxEg030307; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:42:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <414300A7.5080307@withagen.nl> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:41:59 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Walter Venable cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: barner@in.tum.de Subject: Re: submitting changes to a port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:42:04 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: >On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > > >>Walter Venable wrote: >> >> >> >>>There are also wonderful tools just for port submitters. Check out >>>the "porttools" port. >>> >>> >>I've looked at it, and though it makes some things clear. >>It does not get me where I want to go: >> a new (second) submission of a PR with patchfiles. >> >> > >The preferred way to deal with this (IMHO) is to instead send a followup >to the original PR with the new sharfile. Alternatively, just mention >in the second PR's Synopsis that it obsoletes the first one (e.g. >'supercedes ports/77777'). That way myself or one of the other ports >committers will know to close that one. > > I think I prefer this one. Just about all files are changed, some patchfiles are deleted....... When I want to delete files from the source after extract (or patch) what options do I have? I was thinking: post-extract: @rm -f ${WRKDIR}/blah/blah/blah --WjW