Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:37:36 -0700 From: Paul Donovan <paul@donovansbrain.co.uk> To: <ports@freebsd.org> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Howl port - deprecated? Message-ID: <687deb6bc9f6fbf29e399f7a103872bd@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4DAD346F.1000005@freebsd.org> References: <cf879eca7df66ef328434fba34c387cc@localhost> <4DAD346F.1000005@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:06:23 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org= > wrote: > I turned howl back over to ports@ a long time ago when I moved to using > and maintaining avahi. Since it remained unmaintained, it was marked > deprecated. Avahi now has full howl compatibility support. If you wan= t > to assume maintainership of howl, it can remain a viable alternative to > avahi. I'm very new to FreeBSD, but I've read through most of the documentation about being a port maintainer and it doesn't look too difficult. Howl doesn't have any ports that depend on it, and it hasn't changed in years = so I doubt there will be a lot to do. I will send a PR to ask to be the maintainer this weekend. I'm currently running a VM of FreeBSD 8.2. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to switch my installation to follow 8-STABLE (I read tha= t it's best to check your ports on the STABLE branches)? Regards, Paul
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