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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