From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 14:30:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6C316A402 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7BA13C45A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:30:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4451EEBC62; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:11:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:11:16 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Jim Stapleton" Message-Id: <20070312101116.13c6966d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20703120620v3606709dqadd3e0c961e3331@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20703120620v3606709dqadd3e0c961e3331@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question regarding handling of a port listed with this address as the maintainer (mail/py-spambayes) 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, 12 Mar 2007 14:30:43 -0000 In response to "Jim Stapleton" : > I gather that if I want to make an addition to a port, with this > address listed as a maintainer (meaning there is no maintainer, > correct?) I should just follow the instructions in the porters > handbook of using the same tool that creates bugreports, correct? > > Additionally, the addition to the port in question, mail/py-spambayes, > requires I add a file to the work directory (I made an rc.d script for > it), as well as some small changes to the pkg-plist. I don't have a > good place to host this file, what do you all recommend I use? These articles have 99% of the information you need: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ Since there's no maintainer, you may want to consider volunteering to maintain it. Generally, I open a PR. If I don't hear back from someone within a week or so, I'll ping the mailing list asking a committer to look at it, but usually someone jumps in and takes care of it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com