From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 13:08:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D4C16A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl390.iae.nl [212.61.63.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B3443D49 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from [212.61.27.71] (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8AD8GEg071514; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:08:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <4141A740.20005@withagen.nl> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:08:16 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: barner@in.tum.de References: <41418E58.4070101@withagen.nl> <20040910125254.GA4486@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <20040910125254.GA4486@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: submitting changes to a port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:08:19 -0000 Simon Barner wrote: >the common way is to > - make a copy of the port's directory (e.g. ports/category/ports.orig) > - modify the port (ports/category/port) until you're satisfied > - submit the output of > > > > cd ports/category && diff -ruN port.orig port > > Before or after make extract make patch make You see there lies my question. I've also don the original port, but it did not work on amd64. And thus we will be seeing possibly 2 patches for one file if I do the diff after "make patch". So I would expect to have diffs to the original source > in a problem report (don't forget to Cc: the maintainer (if it's > > > != ports@FreeBSD.org)). > > I'm the maintainer. But I do not have cvs-rights, nor would I want to have. >>2) I need a TMP directory to install some of the tools in, as they are >>needed as bootstrap for other tools to build. >> Now I've got a variable TMP which is currently set to /tmp. >> Where/how should I do that? >> >> > >You should do that in a subdirectory of ${WRKSRC}, e.g. >${WRKSRC}/bootstrap (this directory is guaranteed to be writable for >you port, and it's cleaned automaticalle in the ``make clean'' stage. > > So ${WRKSRC}/tmp would do the trick. Thanx, for helping me out, --WjW