FreeBSD Port: mail/milter-regex

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 8 11:22:17 PDT 2006


Derek wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Is the process I follow for an update the same as when submitting a new
>>> port? (ie. shar `find port_dir`)
>>
>> No, you should submit a diff (preferably unified) against the current
>> version of the port as part of your PR.
>>
> 
> So, I Googled around for the correct process for doing this.  A site
> recommended the incantation:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/misc
> diff -rn -U 1 foo.old/ foo/  > /tmp/foo-1.2.3.patch

The caps are wrong in those flags. -ruN would be much more useful.

> Is this a case where it makes more sense to use the URL method, and just
> link to the tarball I've linked to in my original post

No.

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