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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:27:27 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com, bob@tania.servebbs.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Personalised patches in ports
Message-ID:  <20071126072727.GA3259@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200711260452.lAQ4qVuN098618@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <20071121221955.10f80f09@tania.servebbs.org> <20071123032011.57dcfc96@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200711260452.lAQ4qVuN098618@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:52:31AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> > > How can I incorporate my patch into the portupgrade system, so that an
> > > upgrade of Xpdf will apply my patch? If I download the bzip file,
> > > apply the patch, re-bzip the sources, and then try to force an
> > > upgrade, the checksum fails (as expected).
> > >=20
> > > How does one do thes properly?
> >=20
> > It's actually much easier than in Linux, since the ports system already
> > has to do this. Each port has a files directory into which you can put
> > patches, which will get applied automatically each time you build. See
> > the porter's handbook for details:
>=20
> But wouldn't that personnal patch file be erased by next cvsup of the
> ports?

Not if you 'chflags schg,sunlnk' it.=20

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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