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man page for send-pr (by Heinz G. Seidl, hgs@cygnus.com)
updated Feb 1993 for GNATS 3.00 by Jeffrey Osier, jeffrey@cygnus.com
This file is part of the Problem Report Management System (GNATS)
Copyright 1992 Cygnus Support
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$FreeBSD$
[ -P ] [ -L ] [ -s severity ] [ -V ]
[ --version ] [ -c address ] [ -a file ]
(PRs) to a central support site. In most cases the correct site will be the default. This argument indicates the support site which is responsible for the category of problem involved. Some sites may use a local address as a default. site values are defined by using the aliases (5).
send-pr invokes an editor on a problem report template (after trying to fill in some fields with reasonable default values). When you exit the editor, send-pr sends the completed form to the Problem Report Management System (GNATS) at a central support site. At the support site, the PR is assigned a unique number and is stored in the GNATS database according to its category and submitter-id. GNATS automatically replies with an acknowledgement, citing the category and the PR number.
To ensure that a PR is handled promptly, it should contain one of the available categories to identify the problem area. (Use `send-pr -L' to see a list of categories.)
The more precise your problem description and the more complete your information, the faster your support team can solve your problems.
send-pr depends on a correctly configured mail submission system to work correctly. If, for any reason, sending mail is not working, problem reports can be submitted over the web, through:
http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html-f " problem-report" specify a file (problem-report) which already contains a complete problem report. send-pr sends the contents of the file without invoking the editor. If the value for problem-report is `\|-\|' , then send-pr reads from standard input.
-s " severity" Give the problem report the severity severity .
-t " mail-address" Change mail address at the support site for problem reports. The default mail-address is the address used for the default site . Use the site argument rather than this option in nearly all cases.
-c " address" Put address in the Cc: header of the message.
-a " file" Copy the specified file into the Fix: section. Binary files are uuencoded.
-P print the form specified by the environment variable PR_FORM on standard output. If PR_FORM is not set, print the standard blank PR template. No mail is sent.
-L print the list of available categories. No mail is sent.
-V Display the send-pr version number. This may also be specified as --version.
Note: use send-pr to submit problem reports rather than mailing them directly. Using both the template and send-pr itself will help ensure all necessary information will reach the support site.
advocacy This used to be for the advocacy WWW pages. Now deprecated in favour of the www category, relevant alternative use of this category is encouraged.
alpha Alpha processor specific problems.
amd64 AMD64 processor specific problems.
arm ARM processor specific problems.
bin Corrections or enhancements to system executables.
conf Corrections or enhancements to the system configuration files.
docs Corrections or enhancements to the manpages or other documentation.
gnu Corrections or enhancements to the GNU contributed software.
i386 Intel x86 processor specific problems.
ia64 Intel ia64 processor specific problems.
java Problems related to Java.
kern Changes or enhancements to the architecture independent kernel sources.
misc Problems that do not fit into any of the other categories.
ports Corrections or enhancements (including new ports) to the ports collection.
powerpc PowerPC processor specific problems.
sparc64 SPARC processor specific problems.
standards Standards conformance issues.
threads Problems related to threading on FreeBSD.
usb Problems related to the USB subsystem.
www Changes or enhancements to the FreeBSD website.
default: vi If the environment variable MAIL_AGENT is set, its value is used as the path + command line arguments of the executable to be invoked for sending the problem report (which will be provided via standard input).
This can be useful if you either use a MTA other than sendmail or need to provide additional parameters, such as the envelope sender on machines without a valid FQDN.
Default value: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t If the environment variable PR_FORM is set, then its value is used as the file name of the template for your problem-report editing session. You can use this to start with a partially completed form (for example, a form with the identification fields already completed).
See the GNU Info file send-pr.info or the document Reporting Problems With send-pr for detailed information on reporting problems
/tmp/pf.XXXXXXXX copy of empty PR form, for testing purposes
/tmp/pr.XXXXXXXX copy of filled PR form, created on interrupt
/tmp/pbad.XXXXXXXX file for rejected PRs
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