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Date:      25 Jul 2002 09:42:58 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        David MacKenzie <djm@pix.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How does a port maintainer update it?
Message-ID:  <1027608179.410.0.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D400D31.7040007@pix.net>
References:  <3D400D31.7040007@pix.net>

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On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:37, David MacKenzie wrote:
> Last fall I created ports/audio/id3v2 and soon I'll want to update it to 
> a newer release.  Do I do that by filing a PR with diffs like anyone 
> else?  The FreeBSD Porter's Handbook chapter on Upgrading at
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/port-upgrading.html
> 
> assumes that the reader is not the maintainer of the port.  I can't find 
> any documentation explicitly stating how a port maintainer makes changes 
> to it.  That's a glaring omission considering the rest of the Porter's 
> Handbook is written for people who are intending to be maintaining a port.
I believe you just submit diffs in a PR marked MAINTAINER UPDATE....

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