Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:19:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-CURRENT build failure of ports you maintain Message-ID: <20021120091926.GA50113@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021119154932.GA476@vista.netmemetic.com> References: <200211180106.gAI16QfG085711@bento.FreeBSD.org> <20021119154932.GA476@vista.netmemetic.com>
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:49:32PM +0800, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:06:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > One or more ports that you maintain are currently unbuildable under
> > FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT/i386 on the FreeBSD package-building cluster.
> (Dunno if I'm talking to a mailing list... ;-)
Yes you are.
> Anyways, I know why the port breaks, but I'm not familiar with this ports
> stuff. Do you have pointers to what a port maintenance guy should do?
The porter's handbook should tell you everything you need to know
about how the ports system works:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
Essentially you should submit a problem report using send-pr(1):
Category 'Ports', Class 'maintainer-update', containing the port
changes you want to make as patches preferably in 'diff -u' format.
That often means sending a diff against another diff file for the
stuff in the .../files subdirectory.
If your patches make any files redundant note them down in the PR so
the committer can 'cvs remove' them.
> (I'm the original developer of the software in question; the port wasn't
> created by me, but I have agreed to take over its maintenance.)
It's the same procedure when you release a new version of the software
-- send in a PR with the changes to the port Makefile, etc. If you
take a look at the archives of the freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing
list, there are many examples:
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2002/freebsd-ports/
Cheers,
Matthew
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