Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:58:11 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp://freebsd.org - RIP Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980212075556.8339B-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <34E2D7C6.59E2B600@hiwaay.net>
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> [Steve says about ports] >Yes, putting them in a PR is TRT, but they should be uuencoded >tarballs. All to many times I have had to spend extra time sorting >out snarf-and-barf errors. I would go so far as to say all but the >most trivial of patches should be done this way. I thought people were starting to lean towards shar archives for this sort of thing. I certainly dig shar archives, but if the people that actually have to do the work prefer otherwise, I'd like to know (as one of those folks who occasionally submit port stuff). I guess the same applies for patches...I didn't know that was even an issue. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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