On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:44:34PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: > On 5/6/13, James Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I took it upon myself to throw together a port. Since it's such a simple > > tool it only needs a simple port. > > > > One request to the OP any chance you could add a 20130505 or a version > > number to the tar.gz file? That way if you ever release a new version > > the port won't break with bad checksum errors. Thanks. > > > > -- > > James Turner > > > > Yes, there will be more versions for a little while. Maybe posting > this was premature, but I thought the next release was a long while > away so it was OK. > > I discovered today this doesn't handle spaces in filenames (I never > use them), so I fixed that. Also it appends the date and time where > the last period in a filename is, so file.tar.gz ends up > file.tar_2013-05-06_1234.gz which looks a little funny. I haven't > decided how to deal with that. Multiple periods cause a problem since > I used strrchr('.') to place the split. > > If there are suggestions I might make more changes, so the checksum > won't be stable for a little while. I don't anticipate changing it > very often after initial beta testing, if ever. > > Thank you for making a port, I was looking up how to do that, but I've > been working on something else all day. This probably needs week or > so settling time: I've never published anything this way before. How > do I reconnect to the project? > > There is now a http://ab1jx.webs.com/calcs/backdir/backdir_20135056.tar.gz > > Thanks again, > > Alan Corey, ab1jx > > -- > Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX >
I've tweaked the port locally but will wait until things settle, then I'll work on getting it imported. If your interested in porting your other stuff or any other software the Porter's Handbook [0] is a great place to start. [0] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/index.html -- James Turner
