From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 28 20:44:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510391065676 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:44:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (worf.ds9.tecnik93.com [81.196.207.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090218FC18 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (it.buh.tecnik93.com [81.196.204.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F03A222C50AA; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:44:44 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:44:35 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Message-ID: <20100128224435.6186f281@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <4B61E988.1000801@missouri.edu> References: <4B61E988.1000801@missouri.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/3DlPtnniuffc6eJid+tDbJB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch upgrade for port committers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:44:46 -0000 --Sig_/3DlPtnniuffc6eJid+tDbJB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:46:16 -0600 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > When an update to a port is committed, it is likely to contain >=20 > (a) lines like "Only in xxxx: yyyy" >=20 > or (b) patches that are created against empty files using the "-N"=20 > option for diff. >=20 > Cannot "patch" honor these cases? As a port maintainer, I have been=20 > caught quite a few times by committers not adding or removing files > from the "files" directory in a port. No, what happens is that when new files are created by 'patch < something.diff' one had to=20 'cvs add path/to/file' and one sometimes forgets. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B --Sig_/3DlPtnniuffc6eJid+tDbJB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkth9zoACgkQJ7GIuiH/oeWJnACgnCeIq1s3x5AsGs3AJT+wjWuk HEQAoLOzdulzBIx+nNyUmMbWS07sDGhv =iKae -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/3DlPtnniuffc6eJid+tDbJB--