Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:05 GMT From: "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/127743: Update devel/pwlib net/opal net/ekiga to GNOME 2.24.0 Message-ID: <200810160840.m9G8e5wQ012902@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/127743; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw> To: "Stefan Walter" <stefan@freebsd.org> Cc: GNATS <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>, steve@energistic.com, mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: ports/127743: Update devel/pwlib net/opal net/ekiga to GNOME 2.24.0 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:07:07 +0800 On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Stefan Walter <stefan@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > please note that it might be a better idea to send a problem report for > every single port to be updated, not a single PR updating multiple ports. > That makes it easier to track feedback for every update, especially since > multiple port maintainers are involved. > > Furthermore, the preferred form of an update of an existing port is a > patch in unified diff format, not a shar archive, since that makes it > easier to see what exactly changed. > > I'd recommend that you resend the updates as patches in separate PRs. If > the update of one port depends on the update of another one, just send the > PRs in the appropriate order and make a note in the description field > which PRs have to be processed first. > > I have cc'd the two port maintainers involved here, anyway, just to raise > their attention to what's currently in [1]. > > Regards, > Stefan > > [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/127743 > Sorry for inconveniences. These ports work very tightly, this why I put them together. I'll re-send pr with unified diff format. /Eric
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