From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 12 05:36:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DF2605 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:36:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 562022AC9 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VUrsd-0003ct-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:36:47 +0200 Received: from cs78160219.pp.htv.fi ([62.78.160.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:36:46 +0200 Received: from jarmo.hurri by cs78160219.pp.htv.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:36:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jarmo Hurri Subject: Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 08:36:37 +0300 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <87ob6vrqxm.fsf@syk.fi> References: <87vc13aio7.fsf@syk.fi> <20131011222457.18bc81cecd74908615be2bad@sohara.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cs78160219.pp.htv.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I0497bQvg2ObqJeBafddAXYOodU= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:36:49 -0000 Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: >> 2. Try to become a maintainer. How? > > Step one would be to try bringing the port up to date yourself, > sometimes it is as easy as editing the Makefile, changing the version > and running make makesum to update the checksums. Sometimes the > patches need to be adjusted in which case much depends on how much > patching was needed in the first place. In the case of asymptote it > looks like the only patch is adjusting the path to exampledir in > Makefile.in which ought to be pretty easy to handle. > > If you succeed in bringing the port up to date then your problem > is solved (you have an up to date version) and if you use send-pr to > submit the changes to bring it up to date then there's a good chance > that you'll solve the same problem for everyone else who may want it. Sounds reasonable. I think I'll give this a try once 10.0 is officially out. > FreeBSD is a volunteer project and the best way to make it > better is to scratch your itches and contribute the result. It would be interesting to know how the number of volunteers has changed during the past couple of years. Thanks! Jarmo