Re-adding a port [was: Re: mysql-gui-tools]

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Linimon 
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:04:41PM +0100, Benny Goemans wrote:
 Is it possible to bring back the port so I can submit that change so that at 
 least some people can use it again? 

I've just added a section to our Committer's Guide, since it seems
something that many people don't understand how to do:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#AEN1347

I'd be glad to get reactions/corrections.

mcl
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Re: Re-adding a port [was: Re: mysql-gui-tools]

2011-11-11 Thread Warren Block 

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Mark Linimon wrote:


On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:04:41PM +0100, Benny Goemans wrote:

Is it possible to bring back the port so I can submit that change so that at
least some people can use it again?


I've just added a section to our Committer's Guide, since it seems
something that many people don't understand how to do:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#AEN1347

I'd be glad to get reactions/corrections.


Re-adding kind of makes my teeth hurt.  Suggested patch attached.Index: article.sgml
===
RCS file: 
/home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.305
diff -u -r1.305 article.sgml
--- article.sgml11 Nov 2011 23:51:12 -  1.305
+++ article.sgml12 Nov 2011 04:26:09 -
@@ -2608,11 +2608,11 @@
   /qandadiv
 
   qandadiv
-   titleRe-adding a Deleted Port/title
+   titleRecovering a Deleted Port/title
 
qandaentry
  question
-   paraHow do I re-add a deleted port?/para
+   paraHow do I bring back a deleted port?/para
  /question
 
  answer
@@ -2624,7 +2624,7 @@
  and then navigate to
  
replaceablecategory/replaceable/replaceableportname/replaceable/filenameAttic/filename/
 .
  Pick a date that is before the removal but after the last true
-  commit./para
+ commit./para
   /step
 
   step
@@ -2633,7 +2633,7 @@
   /step
 
   step
-   paraMake whatever changes needed to make the port
+   paraMake whatever changes are needed to make the port
  work again.  (If it was deleted due to no more distfiles
  being available, you will need to volunteer to become the
  upstream maintainer yourself and host the distfiles, or
@@ -2641,11 +2641,11 @@
   /step
 
   step
-   paraRe-add the port via commandcvs commit/command./para
+   paraAdd the port via commandcvs commit/command./para
   /step
 
  step
-   paraRe-add the makevarSUBDIR/makevar listing of the port
+   paraAdd the makevarSUBDIR/makevar listing of the port
  in the parent directory filenameMakefile/filename./para
  /step
 
@@ -2656,7 +2656,7 @@
 
  step
paraIf the port had an entry in
- filenameports/LEGAL/filename, re-add that./para
+ filenameports/LEGAL/filename, add that./para
  /step
/procedure
  /answer
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Re: Re-adding a port [was: Re: mysql-gui-tools]

2011-11-11 Thread Doug Barton 
On 11/11/2011 20:28, Warren Block wrote:
 On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Mark Linimon wrote:
 
 On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:04:41PM +0100, Benny Goemans wrote:
 Is it possible to bring back the port so I can submit that change so
 that at
 least some people can use it again?

 I've just added a section to our Committer's Guide, since it seems
 something that many people don't understand how to do:

 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#AEN1347


 I'd be glad to get reactions/corrections.
 
 Re-adding kind of makes my teeth hurt.  Suggested patch attached.

Given the context, I think re-adding fits.



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