From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 19:54:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501FA16A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:54:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1342543D58 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:54:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 1F10F148D9; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:54:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:54:37 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Mike Brown In-Reply-To: <200412141940.iBEJeULA050294@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/74974: Update port: textproc/py-xml update to 0.8.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:54:38 -0000 On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Mike Brown wrote: > In this case, I needed to remove a file from the port. > How would I do that with a diff? diff -ruN is what you want. > The differences in the pkg-plist and pkg-descr were also > drastic as to make a diff relatively useless to a human. Nevertheless, it is more informative to see that output than to see a completely new file, and then have to generate that output oneself to confirm it. > > And you should set PR class to maintainer-update for your ports. > > That info was not in the Porter's Handbook, send-pr(1), or anywhere else > that I looked Interested parties should check out http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html. > but need to know what the preferred manner is of telling you that I need > to remove the entire 'files' subdirectory from the old version of the port. Although diff -ruN should do it, it never hurts to simply mention any files or directories that should be added or deleted, in the Fix section. mcl