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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:43:28 +1000
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to patch and fix a broken port?
Message-ID:  <20030922074328.GC34649@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3F6EA566.4030605@snu.ac.kr>
References:  <3F6E73DD.2050605@snu.ac.kr> <3F6E9433.7090205@ciam.ru> <3F6EA566.4030605@snu.ac.kr>

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:31:50PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> OK, I checked out the send-pr man pages:
> SYNOPSIS
>        send-pr [ site ] [ -f problem-report ] [ -t mail-address ]
>                [ -P ] [ -L ] [ -s severity ] [ -V ]
>                [ --version ] [ -c address ] [ -a file ]
> 
> There's lots of talking about 'category' in the man pages, but where
> does that go into the send-pr command line? Or is 'category' the same
> as 'site'? If so, why using two different words for the same thing !?!
> 
> Would this, for example do:
> 
> send-pr ports -f "myComplaint.txt" -s "Critical problems" \
> 	-a "myPatch.diff" -c "theMaintainer@somewhere.org"
> 
> 
> The man pages say that the 'site' value is defined in aliases.
> But I have nothing like that in my aliases file.
> Also, the man pages do not provide enough info on values for 'severity'.

This article might give you a better explanation:

<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html>;

-- 
John Birrell



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