From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 09:20:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AB216A4D0; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwncism1.leidenuniv.nl (chem.leidenuniv.nl [132.229.170.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD59243D2D; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hugo@chem.leidenuniv.nl) Received: from localhost (fwncism1.leidenuniv.nl [127.0.0.1]) by fwncism1.leidenuniv.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF278340E9; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:20:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by fwncism1.leidenuniv.nl (Postfix, from userid 299) id 6B46334160; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:20:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (213-84-172-122.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.172.122]) by fwncism1.leidenuniv.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A578340E9; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:20:45 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20040214151057.GQ3365@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <20040214151057.GQ3365@toxic.magnesium.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Hugo Meiland Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:19:51 +0100 To: Adam Weinberger X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-34.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_10,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.52 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.52 (1.174.2.8-2003-03-24-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my first port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:20:47 -0000 thanks, that was the info i was looking for.... could you please close this one (62780), then i will re-submit a 'readable' one...submitted as 62840 thanks again, Hugo On Feb 14, 2004, at 16:10, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>> (02.14.2004 @ 0306 PST): Hugo Meiland said, in 0.6K: << >> Hi All, >> >> A few days ago I took up the courage and send my first PR with my very >> first own created port...now i'm not quite sure.... >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62780 >> here is the port listed, and the included patch is gone trough: >> shar -> tar -> compress -> uuencode -> pr-send >> anything i should change or is this really the correct process? >> >> Thank all in advance, >> Hugo >>> end of "my first port" from Hugo Meiland << > > The process isn't incorrect, the more correcter process is simply > shar -> send-pr. > > Please check on: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ > porting-submitting.html > and ignore the part about tarballing and uuencoding it. > > Basically, shar `find ./portname` > yourport.shar ; send-pr -a > ./yourport.shar > > What you submitted isn't incorrect or invalid. But, with my limited > FreeBSD time, I personally tend to ignore PRs where I can't read the > content, and I know I'm not the only one. > > # Adam > > > -- > Adam Weinberger > adam@vectors.cx // adamw@FreeBSD.org // adamw@magnesium.net > http://www.vectors.cx