Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:29:36 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: "Jose R.Rey" <king@v2project.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question of port name change Message-ID: <20031009082936.GW617@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <3F851A56.3020900@v2project.com> References: <3F851A56.3020900@v2project.com>
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--N/GrjenRD+RJfyz+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:20:38AM +0200, Jose R.Rey wrote: > Salute >=20 > Recently one of the ports i maintain has changed the project name, > ive been thinking if i need to make a new port and mark as deleted the=20 > old one, > or make a diff and submit as usual, what will be the best option? Since the new port will still refer to the old project, we will want to preserve the old port's history: version changes, patches, etc. This is done by a so-called 'repo-copy', or a CVS repository copy: the FreeBSD CVS repository administrators will copy the old port's directory under a new name, so that a new directory will appear in the ports tree with the old contents. After that, the new directory's contents will be updated to reflect the new port, and the old one will be removed. For more information, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.= html#AEN1245 What you should do now is copy the port to a new name on your system, then make a patch updating the port and changing its PORTNAME and so on, and submit the patch in a PR, explicitly stating that a repo-copy from the old port is needed. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word. --N/GrjenRD+RJfyz+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/hRxw7Ri2jRYZRVMRAiw9AJ9edpZ+tV7gb451QSadiAb49LKTnQCfVAur H0E6AxCvEsRzs/SAlzoQpQE= =xjlb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N/GrjenRD+RJfyz+--
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