ports/74974: Update port: textproc/py-xml update to 0.8.4
Mark Linimon
linimon at lonesome.com
Tue Dec 14 19:54:38 UTC 2004
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Mike Brown wrote:
> In this case, I needed to remove a file from the port.
> How would I do that with a diff?
diff -ruN is what you want.
> The differences in the pkg-plist and pkg-descr were also
> drastic as to make a diff relatively useless to a human.
Nevertheless, it is more informative to see that output than to see
a completely new file, and then have to generate that output oneself
to confirm it.
> > And you should set PR class to maintainer-update for your ports.
>
> That info was not in the Porter's Handbook, send-pr(1), or anywhere else
> that I looked
Interested parties should check out
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html.
> but need to know what the preferred manner is of telling you that I need
> to remove the entire 'files' subdirectory from the old version of the port.
Although diff -ruN should do it, it never hurts to simply mention any
files or directories that should be added or deleted, in the Fix section.
mcl
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