From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 7 13:53:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE11315185; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA39213; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:53:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Matthew Hunt , sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, pjm@chingiz.cs.ntu.edu.au, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/11934: Port of GNU Nana 2.4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > cd ~/tmp > > ssh freefall.freebsd.org query-pr -F 42424 | gunshar > > diff -urN --exclude=CVS /usr/ports/blah/blah blah-new > ~/my.diff > > Yet another thing to do, just to update a port. Sometimes that update is a > 1 character Makefile change with a new md5. > > Normally I just eyeball those and change it locally and do a 'make > makesum'. > > Regardless, the same people who submit shar format updates are probably > the ones who say bad things about how quick committers are to commit > updates. You're right (I don't think I have ever found you wrong, on ports, actually), I was just pointing out that you don't want to discourage someone who's done a serious amount of work, because of something relatively trivial. I know about the one char updates, those are cheap, I just don't want to see folks who do real work being turned away without at least some checking to see if their work falls in the trivial pain class, or the real contribution class. If it's a real contribution, contributing to FreeBSD shouldn't get too terribly picky, as long as it's reasonably convenient. It's not one rule for all. > > - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - > - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message