RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> writes: > I don't think that's right. When I used shar to submit an update to an > unmaintained port, I was asked to use diff for updates and shar for > new ports.
I was referring more to [new port] PRs. Besides, diffs are natural to any VCS unlike shars. > Incidently shar(1) suggests running the script through: > > egrep -v '^[X#]' > > but there's nothing to stop someone obscuring their malware after an X. > e.g. > > Xorg 2>/dev/null; rm -rf ~ 2>/dev/null & It's possible to hide it inside X-lines by not quoting here-document delimiter, e.g. %% # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # foo # echo x - foo sed 's/^X//' >foo << acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8 X XBeware of running `rm -rf ~ 2>&- &` accidentally. X acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8 exit %% _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
