On Sunday 21 November 2010 15:12:08 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan <jonat...@kc8onw.net> wrote: > > On 11/20/2010 11:57 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > >> Contribute approx. 50 pr's with patches that are consistently coded and > >> prove > >> to work (and in the right format) no shar files please. > > > > Does the Porter's Handbook need to be updated then? It explicitly says > > to use shar files to send ports in section 3.6, or where you referring > > specifically to patches and not full ports? > > That is my understanding at least: > shar for new ports > diffs for patches and updates to existing ports. > > HTH
That is correct, although it is possible to use a unified diff with the "-N" flag against a non existent source. The problem is too many contributors send in update pr's in shar format which are a real PITA to deal with from our end. You may notice that many pr's aren't picked up by committers for just that reason. In the above I was referring to updates, not new ports. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
