Re: howto update mail/alpine in pkgsrc

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, the wise Greg Troxel wrote:

> Also, see pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt.
>
> send-pr fires up an editor.  So you create a diff into a file, and then 
> you insert the diff into the buffer when filling out the bug report.
>
> A benefit of send-pr, besides having the patch not get lost, is that 
> it's more likely that the diff will not be mangled by a Mail User Agent 
> designed to send html in multiple colors instead of to transfer patches 
> without breaking them.
>
> Overall, if you are going to learn one approach or the other, I'd 
> recommend wip, especially if you already know how to use git.

Ok, thanks. I'll try the wip approach first. Not familiair with git 
either, but that doesn't seem too hard.

Thanks & regards,
Marco

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