From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 19:37:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2281C37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A9F111C41; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:37:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:37:30 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Update port Message-ID: <20001029223730.G37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <0c4c01c0421c$26909160$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <0c4c01c0421c$26909160$931576d8@inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:50:23PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:50:23PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > I read the porters handbook and I just want to clarify something. I have > updated the postfix-current as most of you have heard by the spam in your > mailbox, but the maintainer hasn't responded to my emails so I am going to > use sendpr and send a problem report as specified in the handbook. I was > wondering if in the shar archive it is acceptable to put diffs against the > current port or should I just shar the whole port directory and send that as > a tar.gz uuencoded in send-pr? Note: Once again, please use diff(1) and not shar(1) to send updates to existing ports! I guess I need to change that from being its own paragraph to be set in

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