Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:47:03 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to remove a patch from a port? Message-ID: <200410200247.03898.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200410200241.31182.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <200410181506.55316.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <20041019214330.5ea1de30@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <200410200241.31182.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:41 am, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:43 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu > <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:55 -0700 > > Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > > > I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort > > > of new at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and > > > upgrade it for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove > > > that patch if need be. What I've been doing is removing a chunk > > > of the ports tree with cd /usr/ports && rm -rf */*portname* and > > > then cvsup'ping again, but this doesn't seem right or very > > > efficient. I've read the man page for patch, but the only thing I > > > can come up with is the reverse option, which I must admit I > > > don't totally understand. Can anyone explain this in a way that > > > makes sense? > > > > If I understand what you want correctly, all you have to do is to > > rename the patch from: > > > > /usr/ports/cat/your_port/files/patch-you_want_not_applied to > > something that does not begin with 'patch'. > > OK, and thanks by the way, but let's say it's a patch which involves > several ports as part of a metaport, like xcfe4? Someone else > recommended just rm -rf all the affected branches and then > cvsup'ping, which I had been doing, more or less, but it seemed to me > like that was sort of sloppy (but maybe there isn't a graceful way to > do this). I was just wondering if there was anything that was the > equivalent of "unpatch." Sorry, let me explain a bit better. Someone posted a patch to -ports to upgrade xfce4 to the latest version, and I was helping test it. The patch covered several ports, and it had a few problems and was updated by the patch author, but I wasn't quite sure how to back out of it and retest an updated patch without having to cvsup my ports tree and start over. But like I said, maybe there isn't some other method I'm missing, and this is the way it's done ... - jt
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