From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 04:24:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF12106564A for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@akherb.com) Received: from bsdevel.akherb.com (bsdevel.akherb.com [208.86.224.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6643F8FC19 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (180-150-42-72.gci.net [72.42.150.180]) by bsdevel.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5E71972F8F; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:09:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:09:23 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE; KDE/4.5.3; i386; ; ) References: <4CE7EC0D.9000203@a1poweruser.com> <4CE969B6.90900@kc8onw.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011211909.23708.beech@akherb.com> Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen Subject: Re: becoming a port committor X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:24:41 -0000 On Sunday 21 November 2010 15:12:08 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan wrote: > > On 11/20/2010 11:57 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > >> Contribute approx. 50 pr's with patches that are consistently coded and > >> prove > >> to work (and in the right format) no shar files please. > > > > Does the Porter's Handbook need to be updated then? It explicitly says > > to use shar files to send ports in section 3.6, or where you referring > > specifically to patches and not full ports? > > That is my understanding at least: > shar for new ports > diffs for patches and updates to existing ports. > > HTH That is correct, although it is possible to use a unified diff with the "-N" flag against a non existent source. The problem is too many contributors send in update pr's in shar format which are a real PITA to deal with from our end. You may notice that many pr's aren't picked up by committers for just that reason. In the above I was referring to updates, not new ports. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------