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From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To: Hugo Meiland <hugo@chem.leidenuniv.nl>
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>> (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


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