Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:15 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Thierry Thomas <thierry@freebsd.org>, Xavier Otazu <xotazu@cvc.uab.es> Subject: Re: grace 5.1.21 port Message-ID: <200704250251.18737.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <20070425114549.1f2eb5a6@cvc131.uab.es> References: <20070417133803.12b95b57@cvc131.uab.es> <20070424204015.GH23223@graf.pompo.net> <20070425114549.1f2eb5a6@cvc131.uab.es>
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> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:40:15 +0200 > > Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Le Mar 17 avr 07 =E0 13:38:03 +0200, Xavier Otazu > > <xotazu@cvc.uab.es> > > > > =E9crivait=A0: > > > Hello: > > > > =A1Hello! > > > > > I do not know if this e-mail account is a mail-list or a > > > personal e-mail. Anyway, I woul like to say to the maintainer > > > of this port to upgrade it to the newest recent version, i.e. > > > 5.1.21. > > > > Just upgraded. > > > > Note: there is currently no maintainer for this port; if you are > > interested, you could grab its maintainership. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Th. Thomas. > On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Xavier Otazu said: > Hello, > > Great news! > > Thanks a lot for your effort! > > Where may I learn how to become a port maintainer? I've seen the > Porter's Handbook, but I am not sure I will have enough time to > read all this handbook in order to maintain the grace port. There > some "short" handbook to know the basic skills to become a > maintainer? > > cheers, > > Xavier There really isn't any shortcut. If anything the porter's handbook=20 isn't detailed enough. You should start out understanding everything=20 in the Makefile for the port your interested in maintaining. Same=20 goes for the pkg-plist and all other relevent files. The porter's=20 handbook is an excellent tutorial, the more you learn about the=20 overall structure, the easier it will be to do an upgrade. There are=20 a lot of useful tools in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt that can make your=20 life easier. I use porttools quite a bit.=20 Just digest the handbook a chunk at a time, and before long it will=20 all start to make sense. Good Luck, Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D-------------
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