Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:57:19 +0100 (CET) From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question: maintaining patch separately from ports cvs Message-ID: <20040128094601.J90334@mignon.ki.iif.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040127213401.GA68505@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040127112304.C48022@mignon.ki.iif.hu> <20040127213401.GA68505@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:39:13AM +0100, Mohacsi Janos wrote: > > Dear All, > > Are there any possible way to maintain a local patch against a > > certain port. > > Let's consider a following scenario: > > - There is port named foo/bar that is maintained and constantly updated by > > the certain maintainer of FreeBSD foo/bar port. > > - Somebody wants to use the port, but a heavily modified way e.g.: > > patched setup in chroot, jail environment, setup with certain > > configuration defaults, that is extremely local specific > > > > How can one achieve such scenario without interfering the FreeBSD port > > system and benefiting the regular update of the port? > > Use cvs to check out and update your ports tree - see the handbook for > documentation. Are you referring to the AnonCVS section? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html There no way to maintain a local only files with CVSUP mirroring? Like foo/bar/files/patch-local1 ? How can I save from being overwritten by the cvsup mirror? Thanks, Janos Mohacsi
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