upgrading a port with no maintainer

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> 1. Easy enough - just change the Portfile with "port edit  
> <portname>", make your changes, test/edit/repeat.
>
> 2. The submit process, however, should be a lot easier than it is.   
> Today, you open a new trac ticket and attach your new Portfile  
> asking "can somebody please commit this for me?"   In a more ideal  
> world, there would be a "port submit" command which caused far more  
> magical things to happen.
>
> Whatever happened to the "port submit" project initiative anyway?   
> Wasn't that supposed to come about for free with the remote index? :-)


	Sure, it was! Remote Index would have brought that and many other  
goodies. Sadly enough, remote index was never implemented, so we don't  
have them at present :-( Hope somebody steps up in the not too distant  
future to start doing some of the leg work ;-)

	So, as an alternative, our guidelines to submitting tickets are very  
well explained in this document: http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets 
  (regardless of the port having a maintainer or not).

	Regards,...


-jmpp


>
> - Jordan
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:18 PM, kevin brown wrote:
>
>>
>> Dev,
>>
>> Suppose I wanted to upgrade a version of a port with no  
>> maintainer,say, http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=pixen 
>> , from version 2.2 to 3.0.  How might I go about making the change  
>> on my local box (leaving the submitting a patch process out for the  
>> time being)?  Is there a doc you could point me to?  I'm familiar  
>> with how to perform this task in gentoo, but not yet very familiar  
>> with macports.
>>
>> - Kevin
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