Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:56:09 +0530 From: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> To: "Linda Messerschmidt" <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local patches to ports? Message-ID: <86tzcosopp.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <237c27100809091212t3d840b02k4e64e8d718f7ff8d@mail.gmail.com> (Linda Messerschmidt's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:12:48 -0400") References: <237c27100809091212t3d840b02k4e64e8d718f7ff8d@mail.gmail.com>
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At 2008-09-09T15:12:48-04:00, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > After our last upgrade to 7-STABLE (7.1-PRERELEASE) our local build process > started producing broken binaries but the port has patches and one of them > makes it work. So, this seems like a good time to replace our build process > with the ports collection. > > What's the best way to preserve our local patches and our custom > configuration flags, and get them to apply to each new update of the port? I would create a separate Apache port incorporating the local changes to the source as well as the necessary fixes from `www/apache13'. This would help in avoiding conflicts between the local patches and the ones in `www/apache13'. This is, IMO, easier to maintain in the long term. I maintain several local ports for which I prefer my own builds rather than the ones from the distributed ports tree. There are several messages in the list archives on maintaining local ports trees, e.g., Vivek Khera, `Making a local branch of the ports tree', http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-April/040366.html If you need more help, you could ask here again. If, OTOH, you are sure that there is no possibility of conflict between the local patches and the ones in the distributed ports tree, then putting your local patches, as has been suggested by others, in `www/apache13/files' is an option. See the Porter's Handbook, Section 4.4, for guidelines. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <raghu@mri.ernet.in> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.help
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