send-pr not portable && send-pr web form disabled

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.08.22 10:49:11 -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:

> I tried to move the send-pr shell script to another
> unix box (SunOS), but it does not work (the handbook
> mentions this possibility).
> I already edited the file and changed the path to
> sendmail (which is different in the Sun box) but I

I think the MAIL_AGENT enviroment variable is supposed to be used for
this.

> have some other problems, like a missing mktemp and
> pw.
> 
> Summarizing: there should be an alternative to submit
> PRs other than send-pr in a FreeBSD system.
> 
> For me this currently means:
> i) enabling the send-pr web form AND

I don't think this is going to happen any time soon, since when the
webinterface was enabled it was abused to send a lot of bogus PR's.

> ii) fixing the portability issues with send-pr so it
> can be used to send PRs from other Unix/Linux systems.

I think it would be nice if send-pr was more portable, but somebody has
to make the patch and make sure it doesn't break send-pr on FreeBSD.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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