www/vee

[Wesley Shields]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:23:36PM -0500, B. Estrade wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:26:31PM -0400, Wesley Shields wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:58:08AM -0500, B. Estrade wrote:
> > > I am the author of www/vee, and when checking to see if it's been
> > > upgraded to the latest I found out that there was no longer a
> > > maintainer for this port.
> > > 
> > > http://www.freshports.org/www/?page=19
> > > 
> > > I am interested in getting the latest version into ports, and am
> > > willing to become port maintainer for it - if someone would kindly
> > > point me to the documentation describing how to do such a thing.
> > > 
> > > The vee site is: http://www.0x743.com/vee/
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
> > 
> > Also, reading through /usr/ports/Mk/* is a good idea if you ever get
> > stuck.
> > 
> > Lastly, this list is also helpful in case you have questions that are
> > not answered with the above resources.
> > 
> > -- WXS
> 
> Okay.  So I followed the instructions on updating at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/port-upgrading.html,
> and during the process updated the checksum file with 'make makesum'
> and ran the suggested install/deinstall/reinstall/etc tests.
> Everything worked fine, so I sent in the result of 'diff -ruN vee.bak
> vee' in through send-pr.
> 
> So is that about it? Also, I mentioned in the report that I'd like to
> be the maintainer for the port, but would like to reiterate it.

Provided it passes the tests that a committer will put your update
through, then yes.  We are currently in a freeze for the upcoming
releases so please be patient as the kind of update you have prepared
will have to wait until the tree is thawed.

> Thanks - this was pretty fun and the replies I got were very helpful.

Your welcome, and welcome to the club.  :)

-- WXS