Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:08:37 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Griping about the ports collection (Re: OpenOffice2.0 64Bit ready?) Message-ID: <20050913090837.GA563@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050912193436.GA63345@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050810061322.GA91774@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050810230238.GA3571@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050810232819.GA1035@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050811005508.GA35453@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050811051125.GA8733@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050811130805.GA48042@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050811145238.GA11289@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050811145942.GA80118@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050912182549.GB90492@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050912193436.GA63345@xor.obsecurity.org>
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# kris@obsecurity.org / 2005-09-12 15:34:36 -0400:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > # kris@obsecurity.org / 2005-08-11 10:59:42 -0400:
> > > To repeat: what, *precisely*, is missing from the Porters' Handbook
> > > that makes it "useless"?
> >
> > You're a ("foreign", non-@freebsd.org) port maintainer, and received
> > a notification that a PR has been posted for your port. That PR
> > includes a patch. Identify the part of PH that describes how to get
> > the patch onto your machine from GNATS.
>
> Is this really a problem? The main www.freebsd.org webpage has a link
> for 'view a bug report'. Also, when you received the notification
> that the PR has been posted (e.g. by someone assigning the PR to your
> non-freebsd.org address, or forwarding the mail), it will have
> included an explicit URL to view the PR.
First, this omission doesn't make the PH useless, but including
a bit of text would make it better.
Second, while you can certainly fetch(1) the url (don't forget to
add &f=raw), and if the PR contains a single diff, patch(1) will do
quite a good job of surgeoning it from the blob, it gets bothersome
in more complicated cases. How do *you* handle this?
Third, the PH isn't as organized as it could be, especially the "Dos
and Don'ts" section, which, with its FAQy nature, is a heap of
useful information whose utility is hampered /because/ it's a heap.
But I haven't put any xml (yet) where my mouth is, so I'll get off
my soap box.
--
How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb?
You don't know, man. You don't KNOW.
Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991
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