I'm getting started reading the porters handbook. I was wondering if I can
adopt a port to practice maintaining one without the experience to keep it
properly updated at first. I'm a little intimidated by contributing and not
sure how best to learn the porters handbook. I guess read it
hael Gmelinwrote:
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> > On 29. Jun 2020, at 00:18, Brandon helsley
> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm
> getting started reading the porters handbook. I was wondering if I can adopt
> a port to practice maintaining one with
I have gotten a couple of emails from portscout about ports that need updated
and maintained. Before I go about updating and maintaining these ports I wanted
to do some practice on a couple that I use like x11/nvidia-settings. I have
recieved alot of help on the forums and from the documentation
t; On Jul 4, 2020 at 7:08 PM, Jonathan Chenwrote:
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> On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 12:47, Brandon helsley
> wrote: > > I have gotten a couple of emails from portscout about ports
> that need updated and maintained. Before I go about updating and maintaining
>
p when I am supposed
to... get the port working in my working directory I get stuck.
From: Jonathan Chen [j...@chen.org.nz]
Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 7:07 PM
To: Brandon helsley
Cc: freebsd-ports
Subject: Re: Porting Practice
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 12
reebsd-po...@freebsd.org] on
behalf of Vidar Karlsen [vi...@karlsen.tech]
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2020 2:18 AM
To: Brandon helsley
Cc: freebsd-ports
Subject: Re: Porting Practice
> On 5 Jul 2020, at 02:46, Brandon helsley wrote:
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> The documentation for (diff -u) says "To create a suitab
t; On Jul 5, 2020 at 9:09 AM, Vidar Karlsenwrote:
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> > On 5 Jul 2020, at 16:42, Brandon helsley
> wrote: > >> For making changes to a port, I find ’svn diff’ to be the
> easiest way by far. I tend to do this: >> 1. svn up my work-in-progr
