How Do I Make a Bug Report?

[Chris Maness]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-02-21 21:52, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
>   
>> I found out why I was not able to log in to my new CUPS installation
>> web interface.  The ports patched source tree installation put the
>> CGI files in the wrong place.  I moved them to where they are
>> supposed to be and now I can log in.  How do I formally complain
>> that this port is screwed up.  I had e-mailed the port maintainer
>> and did not receive any response.
>>     
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> You can submit a bug report for one of the FreeBSD components in one
> of two ways:
>
>     1. Through email.
>
>        You must run the send-pr(1) or the sendbug(1) utility on a
>        FreeBSD system that has a working email setup.
>
>     2. To post a bug through the web interface, point your favorite
>        browser at the address:
>
>            http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.hmtl
>
> Before submitting a bug report, please make sure you read the bug
> reporting guidelines.  These guidelines, in the form of a short
> article titled ``Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports'', can be found at:
>
>     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html
>
> Since the problem you describe seems to be related to ports, please
> make sure you select `ports' as the `Category' of the bug report.
>
> - Giorgos
>
>   
Thanks for the help.  It turns out it was not a bug after I tried to 
repeat the problem on another box.  I then deleted the directories for 
said ports in the port tree and untarred fresh tarballs from ports, and 
all was well.