[nycbug-talk] patching ports

[Marc Spitzer]

On 9/5/05, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:52:07PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> > I'm looking at the freebsd porters-handbook but I don't see how to
> > patch a port. I have a simple patch to apply, but every way I try
> > it gets over written when the archive is extracted. How do I do
> > this?
> >
> > // George
> 
> 
> Lazy man's workaround.  (Heh, I think I have this on that fluxbox page
> that I've pleaded with you to read.)  :)
> 
> make extract

Umm I think that should be:

make patch

That way if your patch conflicts with the patchs that come with the
port you can apply by hand, ie with vi, and still get it done.   If
you do it with make extract the port may not take all its patches and
then it will not even attempt to compile.

marc

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