From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 13:56:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7871065673 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:56:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA8F8FC08 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so2196834wib.13 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of lists@eitanadler.com designates 10.216.138.234 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.216.138.234; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of lists@eitanadler.com designates 10.216.138.234 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=lists@eitanadler.com; dkim=pass header.i=lists@eitanadler.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.216.138.234]) by 10.216.138.234 with SMTP id a84mr1545150wej.40.1330091781267 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:56:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EQIfdIWJ7asAlXbae1lw/8Uow+FEIH1/gNOqezrUXBs=; b=tWuLjzIfSR5h84WeIe6pj2tOvFNiRpf/7fjLxAsqM4SmV9svoBemjVZ+/afNI4GUgb tOiOQdLwHc7hdHKOgh+wXcuWo/zMhTJ+ZkGnBETXlcgSSeEAkv6e/w73bHBSLzvKtvwb aWnF+curmI4Vud0hy4t8gCkuEINSLMctFKLrw= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=EQIfdIWJ7asAlXbae1lw/8Uow+FEIH1/gNOqezrUXBs=; b=f6L+48oIy6J0eCZm6KmuZGTL/Eja+UKK7WETb+KxuNyQn19fWAumbT55fk72tbQ2g9 DwYjllvQHogk5H1ql43D1n7ddAle1BqH9FNlEPDkWi3ml6/iDyYQdALTfIypCTXsekZ/ eECLJNSqFOLIWItch9AHKxhRqDRlAe1vtUJSY= Received: by 10.216.138.234 with SMTP id a84mr1243441wej.40.1330091781168; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:56:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.15.90 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:55:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <845ACEFD-830F-4941-9EE3-F3CB35FD6200@grem.de> References: <845ACEFD-830F-4941-9EE3-F3CB35FD6200@grem.de> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:55:51 -0500 Message-ID: To: Michael Gmelin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlTkdvuz80cmPAvdYeU3CaP7TpwLz8g21amDQHKFl7qNquI61begk0yhcVmv0+qw7JM8tUX Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie maintainer, question regarding patches 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: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:56:23 -0000 On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: > b) I also have another massive patch which touches another 20 files which= enables some new security features in ice (the history of this patch is th= at I developed it at first and submitted it to the vendor, who refined it a= nd sent it back to me). I might want to make this patch optional as well (u= sing a dialog style menu to enable it). In this case it also seems like it = would be better not to split the patch up to all that many sources, but kee= p it as one feature that's contained in one patch. Just replying to this question: The ports tree is not meant for software development. I would much rather you try to get the patch into the upstream source than keep it as an optional patch in the ports tree. --=20 Eitan Adler