From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 16 16:44:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from racine.cybercable.fr (racine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 150CC37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:44:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26567955 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2001 00:44:37 -0000 Received: from s011.dhcp212-229.cybercable.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.11]) (envelope-sender ) by racine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Jan 2001 00:44:37 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0H0iYb57884; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:44:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from clefevre@citeweb.net) To: Andreas Klemm Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, will@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to tag ports before doing major changes and suggestion ... References: <20010116133356.A26389@titan.klemm.gtn.com> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C In-Reply-To: Andreas Klemm's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:33:56 +0100" From: Cyrille Lefevre Reply-To: clefevre@poboxes.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 17 Jan 2001 01:44:32 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andreas Klemm writes: > While I'm at it ... > I noticed, that some people use new naming conventions for > patches, by using descriptive names instead of the patch-xy > scheme. as I remember. Will Andrew (CC:) began to do that some time ago. no sure about a consensus about his point of view. > How's the motivation to change existing port to that new scheme ? > Does the port maintainer simply move the file within the repository > or do I have to delete and add the patch under the new name ??? if a patch-xx is applicable (even if updates are needed), left him like this. new patches-xx may have new-names. > Then I'd like to suggest, to offer a ASCII version of the > complete porters handbook ... what about : cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/porters-handbook make PRINTERDEVICE=txt.gz Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message