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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:03:08 +0100
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Janky Jay, III" <jankyj@unfs.us>, FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
Subject:   Re: Checking you the maintainer of a port?
Message-ID:  <20191127220308.GH5400@e.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <20191127210755.GA42062@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <BB663B07-EED2-4193-B283-02021DBBCE55@kreme.com> <64c00043-510b-eeef-c50c-a737b291dfc3@unfs.us> <20191127210755.GA42062@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:07:55PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 02:05:56PM -0700, Janky Jay, III wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 11/27/19 2:03 PM, @lbutlr wrote:
> > > I thought that the maintainer of a port was listed somewhere in the files at user/ports/<group>/portbase/ but evidently not. What is the easiest way to find out, sitting in console on a server without a GUI, to find out who the maintainer is? (On my desktop I can just google and launch a browser, but that is not possible on most of the servers which do not have web clients installed.
> > > 
> > > (Right now I am looking for the maintainer of roundcube, but this is a general question.)
> > > 
> > 
> > 	Please see the "MAINTAINER=" line in the port's "Makefile".
> 
> A slightly more general answer is:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/<group>/<port>; make -V MAINTAINER

There's already a target for it:

  make maintainer

in a port's directory.



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