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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2007 11:55:16 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where to maintain local patches to /usr/src
Message-ID:  <20070501155516.GA454@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <191C4EE8-21BF-4DD2-ADBA-73CFC9FFEBE8@goldmark.org>
References:  <191C4EE8-21BF-4DD2-ADBA-73CFC9FFEBE8@goldmark.org>

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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:04:08AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> I would like make a small modification to ntpd on my local system.   
> I'm running 6.2 RELEASE p4, and am updating that with csup with
> 
>  *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2
> 
> Is there a recommended way of maintaining my own personal patches?   
> (The patch is very unlikely to be of use or recommended to anyone else).
> 
> Unless someone tells me of a better scheme, I'm going to put my  
> patches in
> 
>   /usr/local/patches
> 
> and process them with
> 
>  patch -d /usr/src

People usually use CVS to manage their sources, which is designed to
integrate with arbitrary local patches.

Kris



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