From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 26 8:34:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EA3914D55 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 08:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 26756 invoked from network); 26 Sep 1999 15:34:39 -0000 Received: from useraa39.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.130.39) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 1999 15:34:39 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id QAA00801 for ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:25:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:25:08 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Help with RCS files, patches, and PR's required. Message-ID: <19990926162508.E282@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm a relative newbie to using the ports so apologies if this is a dumb question, but I did read the Handbook, FAQ, and several other docs when I installed cvsup and started using it. I've just made patches for the bochs port for the latest source code (990925, which allows Win95 to install without bombing at the first reboot) and was about to submit a PR but then I noticed that most (all?) port patches are diffs against the RCS (*,v) files. OK, I'll do the same, but then I find I don't have any RCS files on my system. I use cvsup to keep my ports and docs trees up to date and one thing I thought cvsup did the first time it was run was to build a local RCS tree, in fact I believe(d) that it is exactly these files that cvsup uses to determine what needs to be updated. Furthermore I've got the patches submitted for the latest version of the wine(1) source code (ports/13952) and these are indeed diffs against the RCS files, so without local copies of these how can I apply the patches other than by hand? I'm now baffled. Can someone explain where I've gone wrong and what I should do to correct things? Thanks. -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message