From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 01:12:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92D816A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:12:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-53-122.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4835743D39 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E133266E35; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:12:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:12:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mohacsi Janos Message-ID: <20040128091217.GA76469@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040127112304.C48022@mignon.ki.iif.hu> <20040127213401.GA68505@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040128094601.J90334@mignon.ki.iif.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040128094601.J90334@mignon.ki.iif.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: question: maintaining patch separately from ports cvs X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:12:33 -0000 --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--