Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:07:39 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015250859.9f34ba@mired.org> To: "Dan Trainor" <dan@ript.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports updates Message-ID: <15484.59435.123814.607345@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <124271652@toto.iv>
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Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org> types: > I'm not familiar enough to know when ports should "usually" be updated, > I guess it depends on the port maintainer, huh? Anyway, I was wondering > when XFree86 4.2.0 would be part of the latest ports collection? Any > way of knowing? Yes, I'll get there in a minute. > Sorry if this question is a bit lame, I'm sure I'll learn in due time. Nope, it's not lame at all. Ports are not necessarily maintained by someone who can commit upgrades, but by a cast of thousands. Well, maybe not literally, but there are a lot of such people. It's up to each maintainer as to how often they update a port. That also depends in part on how often/much the software in question changes. Finally, there may be reasons that a port is *not* updated, like the new version doesn't run on the maintainers hardware because of bugs, so they are waiting until that's fixed. The only way to get answers to such question is to ask the maintainer. If you do "make maintainer" in the port directory, it'll give you the email address to send the question to. And, to do the maintainers a good deed, it also gives you a place to send patches that fix problems with the port. If you PR them, that may require the maintainer to test them then resubmit the PR with "maintainer update" attached so that it'll be committed quickly. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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