Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:00:51 +0800 From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> To: Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: workflow question: how do you maintain the port in sync with upstream? Message-ID: <CALM2mEmnrLmLApeuun9h2OPJbj_wMXY9u-q=PUGyNpy5w8XfQg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <05457c2b-b85c-a929-20e7-38ff1b2899d6@collabora.com> References: <05457c2b-b85c-a929-20e7-38ff1b2899d6@collabora.com>
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 06:30 Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to the community, I am maintaining two packages and I would
> like to check with you if there is a better workflow to do this.
>
> The upstream project of the port I am maintaining is held in github, and
> I also have patches in the /usr/ports/sysutils/myport/file/ folder.
>
> So I keep a fork of the upstream project with a branch containing a
> commit with the patches from the /usr/ports/sysutils/myport/file/.
>
> Every time I need to update the port to a newer version, I do a git pull
> in this branch, then I run a script [1] to re-generate the patches in
> the /usr/ports/sysutils/myport/file/
>
> This script basically generates a file.orig of all modified files in
> git, then copy the modified file to WORK_DIR, then run make makepatch.
>
>
> for file in ${CHANGES}; do
> mv ${WORK_DIR}/${file} ${WORK_DIR}/${file}.orig
> cp ${PROJECT_PATH}/${file} ${WORK_DIR}/${file}
> done
> make makepatch
>
>
> I would like to know if there is a better way to do this (some tool that
> I am not aware of?).
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/helen-fornazier/bsd-update-patches/blob/master/freebsd-gce-update.sh
>
> Thanks
> Helen
>
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Submit your patches upstream, once they get accepted your work on FreeBSD
is greatly simplified.
Best,
Owen
>
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