Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:36:29 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making source code changes to a port ? Message-ID: <20021125143629.GE77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021124032542.GB2486@scottro11.homeunix.net> References: <20021123180213.R46279-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> <20021124032542.GB2486@scottro11.homeunix.net>
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# scottro@nyc.rr.com / 2002-11-23 22:25:42 -0500:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:05:42PM -0800, Josh Brooks wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > 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`.
>
> I just do make extract which will fetch and extract the file--then I cd
> into the work directory (in my case, there's a patch for fluxbox that I
> have to apply to Basemenu.cc), apply the patch, then do make install.
the sources might get (are more often than not) patched with
FreeBSD-specific deltas. your changes could cause patch(1) to fail.
Paul Beard's sequence avoids this by letting the port apply its
patches first.
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