From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 09:45:34 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 8B7F016A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 422F743D39 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:45:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (krinklyfig@pacbell.net@64.173.24.130 with plain) by smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2004 09:45:34 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:47:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200410181506.55316.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <20041019214330.5ea1de30@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <200410200241.31182.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200410200241.31182.krinklyfig@spymac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410200247.03898.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 09:45:34 -0000 On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:41 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > 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." Sorry, let me explain a bit better. Someone posted a patch to -ports to upgrade xfce4 to the latest version, and I was helping test it. The patch covered several ports, and it had a few problems and was updated by the patch author, but I wasn't quite sure how to back out of it and retest an updated patch without having to cvsup my ports tree and start over. But like I said, maybe there isn't some other method I'm missing, and this is the way it's done ... - jt