On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:06:22PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:42:08AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > > Using CVS and dealing with tarballs is probably pretty > > ancient-feeling for many outsiders. I don't know that more > > documentation is really the problem. > > > > I personally tend to ignore most ports@ emails that aren't diffs I > > can easily view in my e-mail client because it's a hassle to save > > the attachment, tar -t it to see what its directory structure is, > > untar it in the proper place, try to build it, then provide feedback > > by copying parts of the Makefile to an e-mail or doing some other > > work to produce a diff. > > I never understood why new ports have to submitted as a tarball. > Why not accept new ports as a diff which only creates new files? > It is trivial to create such a diff.
Give me the magical recipie that does NOT create directories in the actual CVS repository/is usable without write access to the OpenBSD CVS repo or a copy ! They DON'T create new files, they create NEW DIRECTORIES. Unless I'm missing something, CVS makes it NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO DO without a local repository!
