From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 08:40:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C171065688 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9C18FC0C for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m9G8e8uk012954 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:08 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m9G8e874012953; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:08 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:08 GMT Message-Id: <200810160840.m9G8e874012953@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: "Eric L. Chen" Cc: Subject: Re: ports/127743: Update devel/pwlib net/opal net/ekiga to GNOME 2.24.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Eric L. Chen" List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40:08 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/127743; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Eric L. Chen" To: "Stefan Walter" Cc: GNATS , 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 16:38:12 +0800 On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Eric L. Chen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Stefan Walter 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 > Re-sent pr: ports/128140: update devel/pwlib to 2.4.1 to fit GNOME 2.24 ports/128141: update net/opal to 3.4.1 to fit GNOME 2.24 ports/128142: update net/ekiga to 3.0.0 to fit GNOME 2.24