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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:10:10 +0800
From:      blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
To:        Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: workflow question: how do you maintain the port in sync with upstream?
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 13:02 Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 08/14/2018 01:09 PM, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:33 PM Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org
> > <mailto:mat@freebsd.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:41:43PM +0800, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> >     > This one is fairly straight forward, you can simply replace that
> >     string
> >     > with a regex command;
> >     > This is an example of running a replace command for strings after
> >     the patch
> >     > phase of the build;
> >     >
> >     > post-patch:
> >     >       @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|for Linux|for FreeBSD|g'
> >     ${WRKSRC}/README
> >
> >     Patching files in post-patch using sed SHOULD only be used to replace
> >     dynamic content, never static content.
>
> I am not sure I understand what dynamic content means here in the
> post-patch (as nothing was built, so no new file should be created). Is
> the replacement used by mail/lbdb wrong?
>
> from mail/lbdb/Makefile
> post-patch:
>         ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/sed/gsed/' ${WRKSRC}/m_muttalias.sh.in
>
> is it ok if I do the same?
> It is not clear to me when I can use REINPLACE_CMD in the Makefile and
> when I should do a patch.

This is mostly a personal choice. If I'm changing complex strings I'd
> generate a patch, if it's something simple just use the replace command.

The shebang fix does something similar to incorrectly defined shebang lines
at the top of script files.




> >
> > This is missing the point of the email since you can call that command
> > in any stage of the port build process.
> >
> > Maybe we could append this info to the porters handbook.
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Mathieu Arnold
> >
>
> Helen
>



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