From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 13:55:16 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 6B67A16A533 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seceidos.de (mail.seceidos.de [213.157.28.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4370B43FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan-peter.koopmann@seceidos.de) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:55:09 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Bug in ports howto question Thread-Index: AcOzna3PbSTa7vkwSBGGMl0PO8c0VgAAFVDA From: "Jan-Peter Koopmann" To: "Allan Bowhill" , X-MailScanner-Seceidos: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Subject: RE: Bug in ports howto question 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, 25 Nov 2003 21:55:16 -0000 Hi Allan, =20 > Needless to say, you need good systems administration skills=20 > to submit new ports to GNATS if you have a dynamic IP on your=20 > development box. Not really. All you need is a smart-host that is setup correctly. Usually your ISP should operate one for you. If that smart-host does not work with GNATS, change the ISP because he does not know what he is doing. :-) And setting up a smart-host is not that difficult. Even with sendmail... :-) Simply look at the .mc file. Google gives something like define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isps.smtp.server') to put in the .mc. Then run make and there you go. That's not too hard, is it? BTW: Personally I think using a smart-host makes a lot of sense if you have a dynamic IP since many MTAs block dial-up IPs or connections from IPs without reverse-mapping. I think that this is too restrictive but nevertheless some admins tend to be that restrictive... > Yes. That's how I messed up the second submission out of=20 > three. Whatever you do, don't send it as an attachment in=20 > outlook express :) :-) Just out of curiosity: What happened? Regards, JP