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Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...
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>
> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the
> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small
> problem, but don't know how to install the updated port.

i think it's best to add your patch to /usr/ports/blah/blah/files

with name patch-something

look at existing as an example