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Date:      Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:26:42 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL MOVED ports/cad Makefile ports/cad/tclspice Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/cad/tclspice/files patch-src_Makefile.am patch-src_frontend_aspice.c         patch-src_frontend_parser_complete.c patch-src_frontend_resource.c patch-src_frontend_subckt.c ...
Message-ID:  <4DACC8B2.3000202@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DACC5A9.4000905@freebsd.org>
References:  <201104182225.p3IMPf67065746@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DACC5A9.4000905@freebsd.org>

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On 04/18/2011 16:13, Rene Ladan wrote:
> In general, can people who tag ports as expired make sure that their
> changes do not break INDEX ?

That's a useful first step, but it doesn't absolve the person who 
actually deletes the port from responsibility since things can change 
(sometimes dramatically) in the period between marking a port and 
deleting it.

For simple changes a grep of the ports tree to find all (even optional) 
dependencies is fairly painless. For larger scale work like you did 
today, 'cd /usr/ports && make index' takes 10-15 minutes, and can save 
you time in the long run.

Meanwhile, thank you for taking this on, it is unglamorous work but very 
much needed. :)


Doug

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