Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:29:01 +0400 (MSD) From: Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@novel.fannet.ru> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/104126: [ docs ] [ patch ] add a section about distfile rerolling to the PH Message-ID: <200610071829.k97IT1t2010698@novel.fannet.ru> Resent-Message-ID: <200610071830.k97IUjvH091479@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 104126
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [ docs ] [ patch ] add a section about distfile rerolling to the PH
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 07 18:30:44 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Roman Bogorodskiy
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD novel.fannet.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #4: Thu Aug 24 15:55:09 MSD 2006 root@novel.fannet.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOVEL i386
>Description:
Add a guide how to deal with the rerolled distfiles to the
"Dos and Don'ts" chapter of the Porters Handbook. Builds fine
but probably needs style/grammer fixes.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- distfile_rerolling.diff begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.757
diff -u -r1.757 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 6 Oct 2006 19:18:17 -0000 1.757
+++ book.sgml 7 Oct 2006 18:14:17 -0000
@@ -10222,6 +10222,22 @@
special need.</para>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="dads-distfiles-rerolling">
+ <title>Distfiles rerolling</title>
+
+ <para>It could happen that the distfile of your port gets
+ rerolled (i.e. its content was changed without changing the
+ name). It is a bad sign usually and you have to make sure
+ that no harmful changes were made. Save the old distfile,
+ download the new one and compare them with &man.diff.1;. If
+ you see nothing criminal you can update
+ <filename>distinfo</filename>. Be sure to summarize changes
+ so other people knew nothing critial happened.</para>
+
+ <para>You might want to contact the developers of the software
+ and ask not to reroll distfiles.</para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="dads-workarounds">
<title>Necessary workarounds</title>
--- distfile_rerolling.diff ends here ---
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