From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 09:08:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1222016A41F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:08:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@sigpipe.cz) Received: from isis.sigpipe.cz (fw.sigpipe.cz [62.245.70.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938FE43D46 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:08:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@sigpipe.cz) Received: by isis.sigpipe.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B6BD81F87BEF; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:08:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:08:37 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20050913090837.GA563@isis.sigpipe.cz> References: <20050810061322.GA91774@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050810230238.GA3571@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050810232819.GA1035@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050811005508.GA35453@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050811051125.GA8733@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050811130805.GA48042@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050811145238.GA11289@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050811145942.GA80118@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050912182549.GB90492@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050912193436.GA63345@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050912193436.GA63345@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Griping about the ports collection (Re: OpenOffice2.0 64Bit ready?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:08:40 -0000 # kris@obsecurity.org / 2005-09-12 15:34:36 -0400: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # kris@obsecurity.org / 2005-08-11 10:59:42 -0400: > > > To repeat: what, *precisely*, is missing from the Porters' Handbook > > > that makes it "useless"? > > > > You're a ("foreign", non-@freebsd.org) port maintainer, and received > > a notification that a PR has been posted for your port. That PR > > includes a patch. Identify the part of PH that describes how to get > > the patch onto your machine from GNATS. > > Is this really a problem? The main www.freebsd.org webpage has a link > for 'view a bug report'. Also, when you received the notification > that the PR has been posted (e.g. by someone assigning the PR to your > non-freebsd.org address, or forwarding the mail), it will have > included an explicit URL to view the PR. First, this omission doesn't make the PH useless, but including a bit of text would make it better. Second, while you can certainly fetch(1) the url (don't forget to add &f=raw), and if the PR contains a single diff, patch(1) will do quite a good job of surgeoning it from the blob, it gets bothersome in more complicated cases. How do *you* handle this? Third, the PH isn't as organized as it could be, especially the "Dos and Don'ts" section, which, with its FAQy nature, is a heap of useful information whose utility is hampered /because/ it's a heap. But I haven't put any xml (yet) where my mouth is, so I'll get off my soap box. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991