From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 7:47:17 2002 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 2318837B404 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:47:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu (mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu [160.94.128.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48E443EB2 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwythers@umn.edu) Received: from [128.101.74.47] (x74-47.forestry.umn.edu [128.101.74.47]) by mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:47:07 -0600 (CST) Subject: patching a file From: "Kirk R. Wythers" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: University of Minnesota Message-Id: <1039016799.61750.9.camel@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 04 Dec 2002 09:46:40 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] x74-47.forestry.umn.edu #+LO+TR Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a patch that should fix a build problem with one of freebsd's ports, pybliographer. The patch needs to be applied to recode-3.6_1 to make it compatable with pybliographer (which requires recode 3.5 exactly). I want to test this patch out on my system, to see if it does all it claims to do... Problem is, I confused over how to apply a patch to something in the ports system. My ports tree is up to date, but I dont't see the source in /usr/ports/converters/recode that the patch should be applied to. Also, running "file" on /usr/ports/distfiles/recode-3.6.tar.gz returns "file is empty". I thought that I could unpack the tarball manually apply the patch, then tar it back up and build the port. I seem to be all wet on this. Can anyone get me started on this noble errand? Thanks, -- Kirk R. Wythers email: kwythers@umn.edu University of Minnesota tel: 612.625.2261 Department of Forest Resources fax: 612.625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message