From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 14:06:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F7216A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:06:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.blarg.net (floyd.blarg.net [206.124.128.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0274943FBF for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:06:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abowhill@blarg.net) Received: from _HOSTNAME_ (dsl-129-176.sea.blarg.net [206.124.129.176]) by mail.blarg.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 923D2388AE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:06:11 -0800 From: "kosmos" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:06:11 -0800 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031028220611.GA78215@kosmos.mynet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: ports/58500 submission got mangled X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:06:11 -0000 I recently tried submitting a new port (ports/58500) using send-pr on my home unix machine. However, since I didn't have the correct MTA setup, Gnats would not accept the e-mail from send-pr. So, I forwarded the port .shar file in the body of a message to freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org using MS outlook express. Someone from the list (linimon) kindly created a PR for it. Unfortunately, the forwarded message had extraneous characters inserted by outlook express, and is probably corrupted. So, after talking with a couple of people, I decided to configure my unix machine's MTA to use it as my mail client (bastion host) so it could talk to freebsd's mail servers properly. Then I submitted a followup to the PR in an e-mail with a clean copy of the .shar file attached, to bug-followup@freebsd.org. However, the attachment got mangled evenn worse than the first time. What would be the correct thing to do at this point? Should I send a simple e-mail to bug-followup@freebsd.org for ports/58500 with the text: "This PR can be closed", then resubmit the port with send-pr? I am pretty sure my MTA is configured correctly to send a PR now (knock on wood). Or, should I just submit another followup to ports/58500 but uuencode the .shar file before attaching it? I am not too sure what bug-followup@freebsd.org requires in terms of e-mail format. Does it need the send-pr template? Thanks for any help in advance. -- Allan Bowhill abowhill@blarg.net Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may be in owning a piece thereof. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"