Is this only for "Ports" which don't build or "Ports" which have other issues??
I posted an issue with the net/samba36 port where it doesn't seem to create the PAM module?? Regards, Kaya On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote: > lini...@freebsd.org wrote: >> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in >> the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports > > Hi all, > Reports should be ordered to draw the interest of readers, these aren't yet. > > Probably: > Many readers on ports@ often delete these periodic mails part unread, for > lack of time, as too verbose & hard to quickly scan (not read) through. > > Remaining readers mostly just try to Quickly scan > Just the 2nd column in the top line of each section, ie > category/portname > Just to check ports they use are not mentioned, > trying to Not read irrelevant junk, > hoping to hit Delete ASAP. > If a port interest, they would be prepared to scan down > If not, delete ASAP, (as fewer are interested in creating > patches & filing send-pr for ports they don't use). > > It's hard to quickly scan Just those 2nd col 1st line. > > To insert a simple initial list of nothing but port names: > echo $shorter_intro > posting > cat report | grep portname: | sed -e s/portname:// >> posting > cat report >> posting > cat footnotes_was_intro >> posting > > Move the bulky introduction to foot notes. Consider the eye of a busy reader: > "Argh! I got trapped reading that old boring blurb Again! > Why no title like "Bad Ports Report" in top of body (not just Subject:) > to prompt us if we've seen the title before we can skip the intro? > Probably no ports that interest me anyway, > Shall I wade through all that text, in case something of interest, Or > Shall I gamble it's probably irrelevant to me, save time & hit Delete ?" > > $shorter_intro= \ > "Ports listed below have gone bad; Details below list; Notes below that." > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com > Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". > Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, > quoted-printable. > Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ > _______________________________________________ > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
