--On October 2, 2012 2:44:46 PM -0400 Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com>
wrote:
On 2 October 2012 14:37, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com> wrote:
I obviously wasn't very clear. I'm a port maintainer. I need to update
one of my ports. I used to do this by checking out the port into a
purpose-created directory in which I would use cvs to make changes and
test. After everything checked out, I would submit the diff.
We need to be better about announcing these changes as not to
frustrate maintainers. :)
Now cvs isn't working, so how, as a port maintainer, do I check out a
single port so I can update it and submit it in a PR?
You should do things the same way you did before, but instead you
should use svn to checkout out your port. Note that 'module names' no
longer work so you must use the full name:
e..g., svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/editors/nano
It may help to keep a folder of "ports-I-maintain" with the ports you
maintain checked out. Before you update them do "svn update *" and to
generate a diff do "svn diff foldername"
I got on the wiki and figured out how to check ou the port using svn, but
now I'm stuck again. This port has moved to github, and I don't have a
clue how to download it in the Makefile. There's no mention of github in
/usr/ports/Mk, so I assume the method hasn't even been written yet.
The source is here: <https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/>, but I don't see
a tarball, and I don't know enough about ports to know if it's even
possible to fetch it from github.
--
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
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