Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:57:04 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com, bob@tania.servebbs.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Personalised patches in ports Message-ID: <20071126185704.GC19393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <474A8CA5.60300@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20071121221955.10f80f09@tania.servebbs.org> <20071123032011.57dcfc96@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200711260452.lAQ4qVuN098618@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20071126072727.GA3259@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <474A8CA5.60300@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:06:45AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Not if you 'chflags schg,sunlnk' it.=20 >=20 > If you add another file into a ports' files directory that cvsup knows > nothing about, then cvsup will refuse to touch it. No need for chflags > in that case. If you need to make local modifications to a file already > in that directory, then yes, cvsup will replace it with the canonical > version next time you update. >=20 > 'portsnap extract' or 'portsnap update' will however blow away local > additions in the part of the ports tree it is operating on -- there are > clear warnings to that effect in the man page. chflags will preserve > your changes in this case, but my guess is that portsnap might well=20 > abort in the middle of what it's doing if it runs into an immutable file. It hasn't aborted on me yet. But these days I tend to keep my own patches separately, and re-apply them if necessary after a portsnap. Just to make sure I don't screw things up. :-/ Having said that, I usually try to get changes accepted into the official ports tree if possible. Saves a lot of hassle. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHSxcAEnfvsMMhpyURAr4dAKCLwEwdSsij9pqF0o7yeBfLmfemmACgmT0h CP4SWXjlnlY/MBSZgjv0uZ0= =Qr6K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1--
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