Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:54:37 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/74974: Update port: textproc/py-xml update to 0.8.4 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412141349580.29412-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <200412141940.iBEJeULA050294@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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
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