From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 9 22:55:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CE414F52 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:55:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id RAA21175; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:25:52 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA29508; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:24:36 +0930 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:24:34 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: volunteering (was Re: Ports) In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990309194523.04046c40@localhost> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > This would not be an efficient solution, as I would have less knowledge > of the port than the maintainer and it would only fix one port. I propose > that a mechanism be BUILT INTO the ports system to make it easy to maintain > ports for versions of the OS which are up to a year old. Such as what? Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message