From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 09:40:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0050F16A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:40:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5548A43D54 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:40:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (krinklyfig@pacbell.net@64.173.24.130 with plain) by smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2004 09:40:01 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:41:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200410181506.55316.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <20041019214330.5ea1de30@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20041019214330.5ea1de30@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410200241.31182.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to remove a patch from a port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: krinklyfig@spymac.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:40:02 -0000 On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:43 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:55 -0700 > > Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort of > > new at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and > > upgrade it for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove that > > patch if need be. What I've been doing is removing a chunk of the > > ports tree with cd /usr/ports && rm -rf */*portname* and then > > cvsup'ping again, but this doesn't seem right or very efficient. > > I've read the man page for patch, but the only thing I can come up > > with is the reverse option, which I must admit I don't totally > > understand. Can anyone explain this in a way that makes sense? > > If I understand what you want correctly, all you have to do is to > rename the patch from: > > /usr/ports/cat/your_port/files/patch-you_want_not_applied to > something that does not begin with 'patch'. OK, and thanks by the way, but let's say it's a patch which involves several ports as part of a metaport, like xcfe4? Someone else recommended just rm -rf all the affected branches and then cvsup'ping, which I had been doing, more or less, but it seemed to me like that was sort of sloppy (but maybe there isn't a graceful way to do this). I was just wondering if there was anything that was the equivalent of "unpatch." - jt