Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:21:06 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: "B. Estrade" <estrabd@gmail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/vee Message-ID: <20080920002106.GA30884@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20080919232336.GH71681@bc3.hpc.lsu.edu> References: <20080919165808.GP71681@bc3.hpc.lsu.edu> <20080919172631.GA28024@atarininja.org> <20080919232336.GH71681@bc3.hpc.lsu.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:23:36PM -0500, B. Estrade wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:26:31PM -0400, Wesley Shields wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:58:08AM -0500, B. Estrade wrote: > > > I am the author of www/vee, and when checking to see if it's been > > > upgraded to the latest I found out that there was no longer a > > > maintainer for this port. > > > > > > http://www.freshports.org/www/?page=19 > > > > > > I am interested in getting the latest version into ports, and am > > > willing to become port maintainer for it - if someone would kindly > > > point me to the documentation describing how to do such a thing. > > > > > > The vee site is: http://www.0x743.com/vee/ > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html > > > > Also, reading through /usr/ports/Mk/* is a good idea if you ever get > > stuck. > > > > Lastly, this list is also helpful in case you have questions that are > > not answered with the above resources. > > > > -- WXS > > Okay. So I followed the instructions on updating at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/port-upgrading.html, > and during the process updated the checksum file with 'make makesum' > and ran the suggested install/deinstall/reinstall/etc tests. > Everything worked fine, so I sent in the result of 'diff -ruN vee.bak > vee' in through send-pr. > > So is that about it? Also, I mentioned in the report that I'd like to > be the maintainer for the port, but would like to reiterate it. Provided it passes the tests that a committer will put your update through, then yes. We are currently in a freeze for the upcoming releases so please be patient as the kind of update you have prepared will have to wait until the tree is thawed. > Thanks - this was pretty fun and the replies I got were very helpful. Your welcome, and welcome to the club. :) -- WXS
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