question about ports

[Antoine Jacoutot]

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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:25, you wrote:
> Just to give you an example.
> a) If I want to have the FreeBSD php4-port is able to work with
> thttpd, I have to update the lang/php4/Makefile and
> lang/php4/bsd.php.mk to recognize a new flag for the port and
> choosing it's dependencies right. This patch I will send to the
> FreeBSD Gnats database and to the ports maintainer using send-pr(1).
> b) If I want php - just as example - be able to use libpopt (option
>     parsing library, better than getopt()), I have to patch php and
>     please the php developers to include the patch into the next
> release.
>
> Is it clear so far? If not, feel free to ask again :-)

Very clear, thank you :)
In fact I wanted to try adding an option in mgetty, like:
"if WITH_USR=yes, then patch the mgetty source"

### OT
(my USR Message Modem does not work well with voice+fax: received faxes 
are not well scaled but if using fax only mode with mgetty, the output 
is good; I think there's a problem when the modem is going from voice 
mode to fax mode... by the way if anyone is using this type of modem 
without problem with voice+fax, let me know, I won't even have to patch 
the sources :) ).
###

I'll have alook at the porters handbook.

> Yes, on you own machine you can have each directory you want. If you
> want to change something in the ports structure, you should ask the
> PortManagers at portmgr at freebsd.org and substantiate your
> requirement.

OK, but if I cvsup, won't my directory be erased ?

> Hope it helps a little bit.

I does, thanks a lot :)

Antoine
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