Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:12:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: question: maintaining patch separately from ports cvs Message-ID: <20040128091217.GA76469@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040128094601.J90334@mignon.ki.iif.hu> References: <20040127112304.C48022@mignon.ki.iif.hu> <20040127213401.GA68505@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040128094601.J90334@mignon.ki.iif.hu>
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--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:57:19AM +0100, Mohacsi Janos wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:39:13AM +0100, Mohacsi Janos wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > Are there any possible way to maintain a local patch against a > > > certain port. > > > Let's consider a following scenario: > > > - There is port named foo/bar that is maintained and constantly updat= ed by > > > the certain maintainer of FreeBSD foo/bar port. > > > - Somebody wants to use the port, but a heavily modified way e.g.: > > > patched setup in chroot, jail environment, setup with certain > > > configuration defaults, that is extremely local specific > > > > > > How can one achieve such scenario without interfering the FreeBSD port > > > system and benefiting the regular update of the port? > > > > Use cvs to check out and update your ports tree - see the handbook for > > documentation. >=20 > Are you referring to the AnonCVS section? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html >=20 > There no way to maintain a local only files with CVSUP mirroring? What most developers do is cvsup the entire CVS repository and check it out locally. > Like foo/bar/files/patch-local1 ? How can I save from being overwritten by > the cvsup mirror? Apparently you can do it with a "local branch" (documented in the handbook and/or CVSup FAQ), but I don't know if many people do that, or how difficult and impractical it is to use. Kris --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAF3zxWry0BWjoQKURAm7vAKDHsINdY55sV7OIZSbLKtxZ98QkoACfSbJB xiVzehnNj/5YwlqVIy5Oe+0= =YbVy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--
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