From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 2:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B2137B43C for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 02:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 13SFVp-0004mg-00; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:10:57 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA00420; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:10:54 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 264; Fri Aug 25 11:10:13 2000 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13SFV7-00022L-00; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:10:13 +0200 To: Peter Pentchev Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Visigoth , Daniel Hauer Subject: Re: How to apply patches? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:59:47 +0300." <20000825115946.D72778@ringwraith.office1.bg> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:10:13 +0200 Message-ID: <7832.967194613@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:59:47 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Actually, I've been thinking about this lately - setting up my own > CVS server to track both FreeBSD cvsup's and my own mods. CVSup was originally developed as a tool for mirroring repositories. It doesn't sound like you need a repository. It sounds like you just need checked out source, provided that the tool you use to update that checked out source doesn't blow away your local modifications. You could use anoncvs to check out and then maintain a source tree. Local modifications to the tree will be left intact. Every now and then, a FreeBSD committer may make a change in an area that you have already changed. In this case, you'll get a CVS conflict, the conflict will be clearly marked inside the file and you will need to edit the file and fix the conflict. Fixing conflicts is often trivial. For information on anoncvs, see this web page: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/anoncvs.html Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message