Re: openntpd

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 06:56:39PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> After a long hiatus, there is a new portable openntpd release available. The
> maintainer of the current version is listed as pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost, I
> was just wondering if there is somebody in particular that usually takes
> care of it. I just finished packaging the new version for Gentoo linux, so
> if nobody else plans to look at it anytime soon I'd be interested in
> updating it in pkgsrc.

I can't speak for all others, but from POV -- please go ahead :)

> What is the procedure for updating an existing production pkgsrc package via
> wip? Do you just copy over the existing directory from pkgsrc current and
> add it like a new package to wip?

For simple updates, just modify your checked out version and open a PR
including the 'cvs diff'.

If you have to majorly rework the package, then you could import it to
wip and work on it there.

Cheers,
 Thomas