From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 10:12:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899F716A4B3; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.tiscali.de (relay1.tiscali.de [62.26.116.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CB944005; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walter@pelissero.de) Received: from daemon.home.loc (62.246.18.185) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.7.019) id 3F59EB290086A2E0; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:12:43 +0200 Received: from hyde.home.loc (hyde.home.loc [10.0.0.2]) by daemon.home.loc (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8RHBsq5001108; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:11:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp@hyde.home.loc) Received: from hyde.home.loc (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hyde.home.loc (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8RHBo0o000286; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:11:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp@hyde.home.loc) Received: (from wcp@localhost) by hyde.home.loc (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h8RHBo5L000283; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:11:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp) From: "Walter C. Pelissero" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16245.50389.246629.356670@hyde.home.loc> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:11:49 +0200 To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.16 under Emacs 21.3.50.1 X-Attribution: WP Subject: auto-patching the system X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: walter@pelissero.de List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:12:46 -0000 I keep my src tree updated with cvsup, but I start to accumulate patches to kernel or programs that I'd like to include automatically each time I recompile the kernel (pretty often) or I do a "make world" (much less often). Those are usually patches that have been already put forward to the attention of the maintainers with a send-pr, but got forgotten or simply ignored possibly because considered not interesting. At the moment I simply manually copy the modified files into the source tree before recompiling, but, of course, next time I do a cvsup, the changes are gone, requiring me to repeat the process next time I compile (and likely forgetting some stuff). Is there already any pre-canned way to include those patches at compile time? (A parallel source tree, for instance.) Cheers, -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de