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Subject: proposed change in the handbook files
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>Number:         8640
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       proposed change of 4.5
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 10 01:40:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue May 25 08:55:37 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue May 25 08:56:15 PDT 1999
>Originator:     ap
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

I'd like two changes in the following document:

4.5. What to do when a port does not work.

   Oh. You can do one of four (4) things :

    1. Fix it yourself. Technical details on how ports work can be found
       in Porting applications.
    2. Gripe. This is done by e-mail *ONLY*! Send such e-mail to the
       FreeBSD ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> and please
       include the name/version of the port, where you got both the port
       source & distfile(s) from, and what the text of the error was.
    3. Forget it. This is the easiest for most - very few of the programs
       in ports can be classified as 'essential'!
    4. Grab the pre-compiled package from a ftp server. The `master''
       package collection is on FreeBSD's FTP server in the packages

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	
	
Shouldn't 2. rather refer to sending a problem report instead of
recommending to put this on the ports mailing list which was (last time I
checked it) busy with too many things that should have been taken to private
mail anyway? I guess bugs in ports are nothing a bunch of people needs to
talk about.

And 3. is imnsho a kick in the ass for the people spending time on porting
software. Even if you did consider the ports collection to be that
unimportant... 


Achim 
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: steve 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Nov 15 15:14:24 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: hoek 
State-Changed-When: Tue May 25 08:55:37 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed, thanks. 
>Unformatted:
