From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 18: 5:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBF037B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.econolodgetulsa.com (mail.econolodgetulsa.com [198.78.66.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1176243E91 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com) Received: from mail (user@mail [198.78.66.163]) by mail.econolodgetulsa.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAO25gZb081244 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:05:42 -0800 (PST) From: Josh Brooks To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: making source code changes to a port ? Message-ID: <20021123180213.R46279-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I have a piece of software that I want to install via the ports tree, but due to a specific custom behavior I want to add to it, I need to edit a few lines in one of the source files. Right now, I am doing the following: cd /usr/ports/category/package make install cd work/package-1.2.3/src (edit file) cd /usr/ports/category/package make deinstall make install and this works, but it is rather unelegant - can't there be a way to do this without install/deinstall/install ? that is, how can I get the port to download and unpack all the work into port/work directory but not actually install anything until I finish with the edits, ect? then after that I would go do the `make install`. Anyone ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message