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From: Johan van Selst on 22 Jul 2010 18:13
Anonymous wrote:
> >> Am I the only one that thinks it's odd that in 2010 we're still using
> >> executable scripts to distribute text files?
> > How would you do it differently?
> $ diff -upNr /nonexistent mynewport

I quite like this solution. It's a simple command, very similar to
what's used to create a diff for port updates; the resulting text works
in email; it is certainly no harder to read than a shar archive; and it
not being an executable script that demands close inspection before
execution is definately a plus.


Ciao,
Johan
From: Jesse Smith on 23 Jul 2010 08:21
I would like to see a little clarification on the handling of shar in
the handbook. Not a lot, but maybe a few examples. Most of the pages on
porting up to that point I found pretty clear, but that part I found a
little vague.

There's a line which says something like "attach the shar output to your
PR report" and I found myself going back and re-reading that paragraph.
Even if there's just a small example like:

You can create a shar (shell archive) by running

shar `find your_port_dir`

To store this output in a text file for easy uploading to your port
request, use

shar `find your_port_dir` > myfile.txt



It may seem like spoon feeding, but I think it would help clear things
up a little. Really, we want more people working on ports, don't we?



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From: Doug Barton on 24 Jul 2010 00:25
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Jesse Smith wrote:

> I would like to see a little clarification on the handling of shar in
> the handbook. Not a lot, but maybe a few examples. Most of the pages on
> porting up to that point I found pretty clear, but that part I found a
> little vague.

Can you review the latest version of
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html
and let me know if you think it meets your needs?


Doug

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