Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:14:00 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locally modifying ports Message-ID: <20120724121400.55b96aee@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <24DFC78A-422A-4831-9B74-E762C9245DCD@distal.com> References: <24DFC78A-422A-4831-9B74-E762C9245DCD@distal.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> wrote: > So, I've been a NetBSD user for many years, and am looking more > at FreeBSD now. Trying to build myself a system, I find that I have a > long-held delta to a package on my NetBSD system, and I keep it > in a patch-local-* file in NetBSD pkgsrc. > > I can't figure out if FreeBSD ports has a way to keep and automatically > apply "local" patches to ports. I want to modify the way the internals of > a package/port operate, and not in a way that makes sense to move up- > stream. It's just my preference. > > Is there a way in FreeBSD ports to keep a "make this change to the > source code after extracting and before compiling" type of thing in the > tree? I'm not aware of something similar to pkgsrc's $LOCALPATCHES, but you can still drop local patches in the "files" directory of the port: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html Fabian [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlAOdWwACgkQBYqIVf93VJ0xkACfUnN4bEgviioIqJd+e9nJNBS+ cc4An3rK96JKjar6d/B8Tl9tPQ10er8W =9uEr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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