Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:09:40 +0000 From: James O'Gorman <james@netinertia.co.uk> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: How to deal with large number of patches in a port? Message-ID: <4419D414.1070308@netinertia.co.uk>
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Hi,
I'm about to update a port I maintain (sysutils/boxbackup), but due to
the upstream software not currently being PREFIX-clean, I have a large
number of patches (29 patches in total) I need to apply to the source
tree. The majority of them are fairly small (just a few lines), but some
of them are a bit larger.
I've discussed this with the software developers and the patches have
already gone into the development tree, but until another release comes
out I need to patch this release in the port.
I just wanted to check how I should handle this, before I submit the PR.
Should I add these files to the port directly (i.e. create a directory
files/patches and put the patches in there, setting PATCHDIR to
${FILESDIR}/patches), or should I put these on a webserver and set
PATCHES and PATCH_SITES?
Cheers,
James
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