How to submit a port update?

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 18:16:52 UTC 2014


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > The update is mostly some small changes to the code to eliminate clang++
> > and recent g++ warnings along with Eric's typo, which has been
> > languishing for a while.   I know it's a small thing, but seeing those
> > warnings when I compile the port makes me sad.  Obviously you guys can
> > reject if you don't feel it's worth it.
>
> Well, it's always nice to check process and procedures while it's
> not time-critical 8-}
>
> And you are right, the porters handbook still mentions send-pr.
>
> There is one thing which is very nice to have for an incoming PR:
> poudriere test logs that prove that the updated port builds cleanly.
>

Or redports.  Not everyone has a running poudriere setup and anyone can use
redports. Now that I have my new server on-line, I may finally get around
to building poudriere, myself, but until then, redports is all I have
available.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com


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