my first port

[Hugo Meiland]

thanks, that was the info i was looking for....
could you please close this one (62780), then i will re-submit a  
'readable' one...submitted as 62840

thanks again,

Hugo

On Feb 14, 2004, at 16:10, Adam Weinberger wrote:

>>> (02.14.2004 @ 0306 PST): Hugo Meiland said, in 0.6K: <<
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A few days ago I took up the courage and send my first PR with my very
>> first own created port...now i'm not quite sure....
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62780
>> here is the port listed, and the included patch is gone trough:
>> shar -> tar -> compress -> uuencode -> pr-send
>> anything i should change or is this really the correct process?
>>
>> Thank all in advance,
>> Hugo
>>> end of "my first port" from Hugo Meiland <<
>
> The process isn't incorrect, the more correcter process is simply
> shar -> send-pr.
>
> Please check on:
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ 
> porting-submitting.html
> and ignore the part about tarballing and uuencoding it.
>
> Basically, shar `find ./portname` > yourport.shar ; send-pr -a  
> ./yourport.shar
>
> What you submitted isn't incorrect or invalid. But, with my limited
> FreeBSD time, I personally tend to ignore PRs where I can't read the
> content, and I know I'm not the only one.
>
> # Adam
>
>
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