From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 03:33:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B1716A475 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 03:33:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (75-96-237-24.gci.net [24.237.96.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5515D13C458 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 03:33:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id 2577F7F99; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 19:33:45 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 19:33:16 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <366513.8770.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <366513.8770.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707011933.33107.beech@freebsd.org> Cc: Tim Judd Subject: Re: ports mbone/udpcast (PR# 114061) outdated X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Beech Rintoul List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:33:47 -0000 On Sunday 01 July 2007, Tim Judd said: > I noticed not too long ago that mbone/udpcast was outdated (as in > more than 3 years old). Not knowing what or how to proceed with > such an outdated port, I decided to file a bug report. It seemed > the sensible thing to do. > > As you can see below, Edwin (edwin .at. FreeBSD.org) made the > change to close the ticket without much details. > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: edwin > > State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 27 07:20:48 UTC 2007 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Please submit patches > > Well, I know what patches are, but I don't think patches themselves > are able to fix the outdated port.. so I'm lost. What do I do? > > I thought since the port was extremely outdated, that someone with > a commit bit would have to setup the updated port in the CVS tree, > I can't commit them myself. I don't even know exactly what patches > are needed or where to submit them. > > So, how do I proceed? I need some tips and a hand-in-hand tutorial > on what to update and where to send the update. > > Thanks for the tips. BTW: I'm subscribed to the questions list on > a digest, I ask a CC please on all the replies. > > --Tim J. > The porters handbook is your friend :-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html You should also subscribe to freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org. That would be the correct list for port questions. Cheers, Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------