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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:52:31 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com
Cc:        bob@tania.servebbs.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Personalised patches in ports
Message-ID:  <200711260452.lAQ4qVuN098618@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <20071123032011.57dcfc96@gumby.homeunix.com.> (message from RW on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:20:11 %2B0000)
References:  <20071121221955.10f80f09@tania.servebbs.org> <20071123032011.57dcfc96@gumby.homeunix.com.>

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Hi,

> > 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).
> > 
> > How does one do thes properly?
> 
> 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:

But wouldn't that personnal patch file be erased by next cvsup of the
ports?

Best regards,

Olivier



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