Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:21:09 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Generating port changes easily Message-ID: <ceafa4444ea73cab7857f2e7478ff0e4@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <54F16F90.2070600@FreeBSD.org> References: <54F09CC7.1000407@astart.com>, <54F16F90.2070600@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:34:40 +1100 Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> wrote > On 28/02/2015 3:35 AM, Patrick Powell wrote: > > I have made some modifications to a port - couple of lines in the > > Makefile, and an updated pkg-plist. > > > > Once upon a time I was shown a script (run_this_script?) to help with > > updating a port. > > > > 1. Copy the original files in the port to XXX.orig (or something) > > For example cp Makefile Makefile.orig > > 2. Make your changes > > For example: vi Makefile .... > > 3. Now run this script which will generate a DIFF file which can be > > posted: > > run_this_script ... >/tmp/changes.shar ? > > run_this_script ... >/tmp/diffs ? > > 4. Post the generated file to bugzilla with an update request. > > > > Ummm... is there such a 'run_this_script' or am I indulging in wishful > > thinking? > > > > If the changes you make are in the ports files, porttools has a 'port > diff' command (which uses a reference ports tree to create diffs > against. You can use /usr/ports as that reference, and in fact I believe > that is the default. > > You can then just port diff > path-to-patch-file.diff, ready for > attachment into a new bugzilla issue. > > If the patch is against WRKSRC source code, you can > > a) cp WRKSRC/file WRKSRC/file.orig > b) edit file > c) make makepatch (from the port dir) > > makepatch recursively searches WRKSRC for *.orig files, and > automatically creates correctly named patch-foo patch files in /files > for you. > > Hope that helps koobs' reply got me to thinking. So I did a little searching around in ports/Tools/scripts and found, I think, exactly what you were referring/hoping for; update-patches Give it a look. It's intended to work almost exactly as you described. HTH --Chris > > -- > > koobs > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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