preferred format of maintainer updates

[Michael L. Hostbaek]

Tobias Roth (roth) writes:
> 
> i was wondering what the preferred format of a maintainer update is.
> a shar archive of the full, updated port or a diff of the files that
> have changed?
> is there a difference in preference between simple port fixes and
> whole version ugrades?

Please refer to the porter's handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/port-upgrading.html

/mich