Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:18:22 +0900 (JST) From: Curtis Jewell <swordsman@csjewell.fastmail.us> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Versions distributed only as diffs? Message-ID: <20061028131728.C88671@lap.curtisjewell.boldlygoingnowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <20061028041144.GE69913@it.ca> References: <20061028041144.GE69913@it.ca>
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Paul Chvostek wrote: > So... > > I'm looking at porting a debian package whose source appears to be > distributed as an older version plus a couple of diffs to bring the > old source to the current stable version. > > The two diffs, uncompressed, are about 101KB. > > Should I add slightly-modified versions of these diffs as patches in the > port's files directory, making a 104KB port? That seems awfully heavy. > Or should I make distfiles of the original diffs, and write some > Makefile magic in post-patch to apply them to the older source distfile? > Is there a precedent for this? editors/vim does the second with about 90 small patches. So yes, there's precedent. --Curtis -- Curtis Jewell swordsman@csjewell.fastmail.us "Killed enough? ... Yes, Your Highness, I think we all have." --John Patrick Ryan (from 'The Sum Of All Fears', Tom Clancy) [I use Pine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in HTML mail]
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