From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 22:14:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE3416A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spam1.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 148EF43FDF for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@snu.ac.kr) Received: (snipe 19377 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2003 05:44:31 -0000 Received: from lahaye@snu.ac.kr with Spamsniper2.0 (Processed in 0.048236 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2003 05:44:31 -0000 X-RCPTTO: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Received: from snu.ac.kr ([147.46.44.183]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8M5DVwF071536 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:13:31 +0900 Message-ID: <3F6E8536.8010609@snu.ac.kr> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:14:30 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye Organization: Seoul National University - South Korea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030726 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to patch and fix a broken port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 05:14:31 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 05:14:31 -0000 Hi, I have never done this. So I apologize for my ignorant questions... Last week I discovered that the molden port is broken in many ways (md5 sum wrong, Mesa depence absent & install broken). I reported it to the freebsd-ports mailing list and to the maintainer. I even attached a sort of patch that fixed the build in a followup email, but never got any response, nor has the port been fixed. So what to do with broken ports like that? I can imagine that ports are broken and remain broken if nobody ever uses them or installs them. But as soon as a port is noticed as broken, it is necessary to get it fixed. How is the general procedure to get this done? Please bare with me: I'm mainly a port user. I know how to install ports etc. I have no idea about generating and maintaining ports. So here we go again: the molden port is broken, but easy to fix (see my earlier emails about the molden port on the freebsd-ports mailing list). Regards, Rob.