From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 8:14: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD26237B762 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6PFB1948287; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:11:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:11:01 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Hans Zaunere Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patches Question Message-ID: <20010725171101.L43240@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20010725085538.B13342@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20010725132027.46048.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010725132027.46048.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com>; from zaunere@yahoo.com on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:20:27AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:20:27AM -0700, Hans Zaunere wrote: > Well specifically I am referring to the ports > collection. Whenever I do a make install for a port, > there is always a section saying something along the > lines of "Getting FreeBSD Patches." > > I am wondering what these consist of, since I seldom > see neseccary patches for other systems, except for > those that the vendor/developer specifically says > should be installed. When I make install a port and > it does its magic, where do these patches come from? > Vendor? FreeBSD project? Third-party? These patches do > seem to be FreeBSD specific, and I am wondering what > kinds of technical issues they are patching. Memory? > Networking? Differences between FreeBSD's architecture > and a SysV based system? etc.. Most[1] of the patches in the ports collection are in place to make sure that the software installs in the right place, plays nice with other ports etc. etc. This is why you can compile & install software like apache from it's original tarball, but then it won't be integrated as nicely as it would be when you had used the port. It would run however, because the apache team tests the code on FreeBSD also. Of course, like Louis said, there are other kinds of patches, for example to add functionality, but those are more rare. --Stijn [1] In my experience with the ports tree that is, I don't have any statistics on this. -- I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work." -- Gallagher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message