Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:45:51 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to remove a patch from a port? Message-ID: <200410200445.51835.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <20041020141030.00b0ecaa@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <200410181506.55316.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <200410200247.03898.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <20041020141030.00b0ecaa@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:10 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:47:03 -0700 > Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:41 am, Joshua Tinnin > > <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:43 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu > > > <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:55 -0700 > > > > Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am > > > > > sort of new at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a > > > > > port and upgrade it for testing. But I'm not at all sure how > > > > > to remove that patch if need be. What I've been doing is > > > > > removing a chunk of the ports tree with cd /usr/ports && rm > > > > > -rf */*portname* and then cvsup'ping again, but this doesn't > > > > > seem right or very efficient. I've read the man page for > > > > > patch, but the only thing I can come up with is the reverse > > > > > option, which I must admit I don't totally understand. Can > > > > > anyone explain this in a way that makes sense? > > > > > > > > If I understand what you want correctly, all you have to do is > > > > to rename the patch from: > > > > > > > > /usr/ports/cat/your_port/files/patch-you_want_not_applied to > > > > something that does not begin with 'patch'. > > > > > > OK, and thanks by the way, but let's say it's a patch which > > > involves several ports as part of a metaport, like xcfe4? Someone > > > else recommended just rm -rf all the affected branches and then > > > cvsup'ping, which I had been doing, more or less, but it seemed > > > to me like that was sort of sloppy (but maybe there isn't a > > > graceful way to do this). I was just wondering if there was > > > anything that was the equivalent of "unpatch." > > > > Sorry, let me explain a bit better. Someone posted a patch to > > -ports to upgrade xfce4 to the latest version, and I was helping > > test it. The patch covered several ports, and it had a few problems > > and was updated by the patch author, but I wasn't quite sure how to > > back out of it and retest an updated patch without having to cvsup > > my ports tree and start over. But like I said, maybe there isn't > > some other method I'm missing, and this is the way it's done ... > > Exactly where did you put this patch ? How did you applied it? it was > a patch to the Makefile of the port or a patch for the source of the > port ? It's a patch for the Makefiles of several ports in the xfce4 metaport, so as to upgrade to the latest version. I patched it through (essentially): cd /usr/ports && patch -E < /localpath/to/patch The author of the patch himself and a couple other people on the list confirmed that would be fine for this patch, but it applied to several ports. - jt
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