grace 5.1.21 port

[Beech Rintoul]

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:40:15 +0200
>
> Thierry Thomas <thierry at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Le Mar 17 avr 07 à 13:38:03 +0200, Xavier Otazu
> > <xotazu at cvc.uab.es>
> >
> >  écrivait :
> > > 	Hello:
> >
> > ¡Hello!
> >
> > > 	I do not know if this e-mail account is a mail-list or a
> > > personal e-mail. Anyway, I woul like to say to the maintainer
> > > of this port to upgrade it to the newest recent version, i.e.
> > > 5.1.21.
> >
> > Just upgraded.
> >
> > Note: there is currently no maintainer for this port; if you are
> > interested, you could grab its maintainership.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Th. Thomas.
>
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Xavier Otazu said:
> Hello,
>
> Great news!
>
> Thanks a lot for your effort!
>
> Where may I learn how to become a port maintainer?  I've seen the
> Porter's Handbook, but I am not sure I will have enough time to
> read all this handbook in order to maintain the grace port. There
> some "short" handbook to know the basic skills to become a
> maintainer?
>
> cheers,
>
> Xavier

There really isn't any shortcut. If anything the porter's handbook 
isn't detailed enough. You should start out understanding everything 
in the Makefile for the port your interested in maintaining. Same 
goes for the pkg-plist and all other relevent files. The porter's 
handbook is an excellent tutorial, the more you learn about the 
overall structure, the easier it will be to do an upgrade. There are 
a lot of useful tools in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt that can make your 
life easier. I use porttools quite a bit. 

Just digest the handbook a chunk at a time, and before long it will 
all start to make sense.

Good Luck,

Beech

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