From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 09:56:49 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 85E791065675 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:56:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joeb_722@comclark.com) Received: from avmxsmtp3.comclark.com (avmxsmtp3.comclark.com [202.69.191.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236D08FC13 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:56:46 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At8aAFJsQkzKRaxEPGdsb2JhbAAHh2qLRoxEAQEBATW9R4UlBIN+hxk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,222,1278259200"; d="scan'208";a="13783722" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.10.3]) ([202.69.172.68]) by avmxsmtp3.comclark.com with ESMTP; 18 Jul 2010 17:56:44 +0800 Message-ID: <4C42CFDA.3040409@comclark.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:56:42 +0800 From: Joe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [new port] usage of shar command 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: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:56:49 -0000 3.6 Submitting the port Now that you are happy with your port, the only thing remaining is to put it in the main FreeBSD ports tree and make everybody else happy about it too. We do not need your work directory or the pkgname.tgz package, so delete them now. Next, simply include the output of shar `find port_dir` in a bug report and send it with the send-pr(1) program (see Bug Reports and General Commentary for more information about send-pr(1)). Be sure to classify the bug report as category ports and class change-request (Do not mark the report confidential!). Also add a short description of the program you ported to the ``Description'' field of the PR and the shar to the ``Fix'' field. After getting my port ready for submitting to the ports system, I read the above section from the porters handbook and come to a show stopper. I can not figure out just what the author was trying to say with "output of shar `find port_dir`" Can someone explain how the shar command is intended to be used to create the file that gets send with the [new port] pr?