From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 10:51:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F0F16A400 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:51:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (7-137-58-66.gci.net [66.58.137.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE9E13C43E for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:51:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 202597E14; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:22 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD Port Maintainer To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:15 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070417133803.12b95b57@cvc131.uab.es> <20070424204015.GH23223@graf.pompo.net> <20070425114549.1f2eb5a6@cvc131.uab.es> In-Reply-To: <20070425114549.1f2eb5a6@cvc131.uab.es> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704250251.18737.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Thierry Thomas , Xavier Otazu Subject: Re: grace 5.1.21 port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:51:23 -0000 > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:40:15 +0200 > > Thierry Thomas wrote: > > Le Mar 17 avr 07 =E0 13:38:03 +0200, Xavier Otazu > > > > > > =E9crivait=A0: > > > Hello: > > > > =A1Hello! > > > > > I do not know if this e-mail account is a mail-list or a > > > personal e-mail. Anyway, I woul like to say to the maintainer > > > of this port to upgrade it to the newest recent version, i.e. > > > 5.1.21. > > > > Just upgraded. > > > > Note: there is currently no maintainer for this port; if you are > > interested, you could grab its maintainership. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Th. Thomas. > On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Xavier Otazu said: > Hello, > > Great news! > > Thanks a lot for your effort! > > Where may I learn how to become a port maintainer? I've seen the > Porter's Handbook, but I am not sure I will have enough time to > read all this handbook in order to maintain the grace port. There > some "short" handbook to know the basic skills to become a > maintainer? > > cheers, > > Xavier There really isn't any shortcut. If anything the porter's handbook=20 isn't detailed enough. You should start out understanding everything=20 in the Makefile for the port your interested in maintaining. Same=20 goes for the pkg-plist and all other relevent files. The porter's=20 handbook is an excellent tutorial, the more you learn about the=20 overall structure, the easier it will be to do an upgrade. There are=20 a lot of useful tools in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt that can make your=20 life easier. I use porttools quite a bit.=20 Just digest the handbook a chunk at a time, and before long it will=20 all start to make sense. Good Luck, Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D-------------