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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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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

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