From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Nov 8 15:51:17 2002 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 22FD037B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D792043E3B for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org ([10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) with ESMTP id gA8NE7c29414; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:14:08 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de: Host [10.3.12.105] claimed to be lofi.dyndns.org Received: from gmx.net (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA8Np7lY038999; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:51:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Message-ID: <3DCC4DE2.3090000@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 00:50:58 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clint Olsen Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do port maintainers send patches back to package authors? References: <20021108225143.GA62366@0lsen.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4CBC5521C3D972D924A2F0BB" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4CBC5521C3D972D924A2F0BB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Clint Olsen wrote: > This is just a general question. It seems that if the port maintainers > don't hand back their modifications to the original developers of the > package that they perpetuate the _need_ for ports [...] A port is not just some kind of a bugfix-wrapper, it's also the basis for package-building. Even software that would compile right out of the box and install into the correct locations on FreeBSD should have a port. Regards -- Michael Nottebrock "And the reasons? There are no reasons." --------------enig4CBC5521C3D972D924A2F0BB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9zE3pXhc68WspdLARAoKuAJoDRdX/fPtM+wKetbDK+uhTuOkchQCfQxih 8qZVBpxXkeYXMg/Ow4F/DV8= =g+Id -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4CBC5521C3D972D924A2F0BB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message