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Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:11:49 +0200
From:      "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.de>
To:        questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   auto-patching the system
Message-ID:  <16245.50389.246629.356670@hyde.home.loc>

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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



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