Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:28:08 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but... Message-ID: <a9f4a3860905271228sf2860e2r478ea61fd5a64218@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905272036.04272.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <a9f4a3860905270821h31c36b9fh25389f79ee33c29@mail.gmail.com> <200905272036.04272.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> >> 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 cd'ed into the >> /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VERSION% directory, then >> performed 'patch <patch-name' successfully, AFAICT. >> >> Then I did a make, but got no output. >> >> So - I'm obviously lacking clue here. Anyone have a spare set? > > Don't feel like reading the entire thread atm, but for reference: > - Patches need to have relative paths, where the root of the path corresp= onds > to the port's notion of $PATCH_WRKSRC > - You can find out this directory by running: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0% make -C /usr/ports/category/portname -V PATC= H_WRKSRC > =C2=A0The default is $WRKSRC which is $WRKDIR/$DISTNAME by default. > =C2=A0Example: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0% make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd -V = PATCH_WRKSRC > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/stable/usr/obj/usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-stat= d/work/nagios-statd-3.12 > > - Patches are automatically applied if they reside in the port's notion o= f > PATCHDIR and are named patch-* > - You can find out this directory by running: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0%make -C /usr/ports/category/portname -V PATCH= DIR > =C2=A0The default is $.CURDIR/files. > =C2=A0Example: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0% make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd -V = PATCHDIR > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd/files > > - In order to apply a new patch after you have previously gone past the p= atch > stage (configure, build, install), either run make clean or: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0% rm $(make -C /usr/ports/category/portname -V= PATCH_COOKIE) > =C2=A0The above can cause problems, with the build. The normal course of = action is > to make clean. Excellent. I will be trying this tomorrow - I'm leaving work early today to get some things taken care of. Many thanks for this. Kurt
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