Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > Have you tested Debian's FreeBSD port? Debian GNU/kFreeBSD perhaps > does provide a more current user space. > https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Hmm, I think I would prefer a distribution with a relatively large user base. The Wikipedia page also states that the

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: >> 2. Try to become a maintainer. How? > > Step one would be to try bringing the port up to date yourself, > sometimes it is as easy as editing the Makefile, changing the version > and running make makesum to update the checksums. Sometimes the > patches need to

Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Greetings. I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that the ports version is approximately 14 months old: http://www.freebsd.org/cg