From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 18:45:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7540037B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1B743E4A for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.lan.honeypot.net (mail@pooh.lan.honeypot.net [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAO2j6Zk001774 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:45:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.lan.honeypot.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18Fmld-0000Sk-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:45:05 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making source code changes to a port ? References: <20021123180213.R46279-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 23 Nov 2002 20:45:05 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20021123180213.R46279-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Message-ID: <87smxrhej2.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-11-24T02:05:42Z, Josh Brooks writes: > that is, how can I get the port to download and unpack all the work into > port/work directory but not actually install anything until I finish with > the edits, ect? then after that I would go do the `make install`. There are other targets than just "install", "deinstall", and "clean". For example, this should do what you want: cd /usr/ports/my/program; make patch cd work/program-1.2.3 vi file.c cd ../.. make install -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message