Submitting a new port with dependancies not in the ports tree

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 24 09:49:06 PST 2006


On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 10:53:03AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> I'm in the process of writing a port and it has a dependancy that's 
> not in the ports tree, so I'm porting that as well.  My question is 
> what's the procedure in such a case?  Should I submit them both as 
> part of the same pr?  Obviously the one can't be committed without 
> the other.
> 
The easiest way is to submit the dependency first, then wait for the
mail from GNATS and submit the second with a clear notice that the other
PR (#10xxx) needs to be committed first.

Cheers,
-erwin

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