change submission question

Wesley Shields wxs at atarininja.org
Thu May 18 02:42:01 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:58:58PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 21:12:41 -0500
> Wesley Shields <wxs at atarininja.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:08:57PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > > I am just working on writing up new rc.d for qmail and for pdnsd
> > > that use rc.subr. How do I do about submitting a PR for the likes
> > > of that? The porters handbook is not totally clear how to submit
> > > something like that. Any suggested reads or the like?
> > 
> > Submit it as any other change to a port.  Make the patch and submit
> > it (CC the maintainer if it is not ports@), with a synopsis line of
> > something like: [PATCH]: New rc.d script for qmail.
> 
> Cool. In that case I just assume just diff the before and after port
> directories and submit that?

Yes, but make sure it passes portlint checks, and builds according to
the test build procedures outlined in the handbook.

-- WXS


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