Generating port changes easily

[Chris H]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:34:40 +1100 Kubilay Kocak <koobs at FreeBSD.org> wrote

> On 28/02/2015 3:35 AM, Patrick Powell wrote:
> > I have made some modifications to a port - couple of lines in the
> > Makefile,  and an updated pkg-plist.
> > 
> > Once upon a time I was shown a script (run_this_script?) to help with
> > updating a port.
> > 
> > 1.  Copy the original files in the port to XXX.orig  (or something)
> >       For example cp Makefile Makefile.orig
> > 2.  Make your changes
> >       For example: vi Makefile  ....
> > 3.  Now run this script which will generate a DIFF file which can be
> > posted:
> >       run_this_script ... >/tmp/changes.shar  ?
> >       run_this_script ... >/tmp/diffs                 ?
> > 4.  Post the generated file to bugzilla with an update request.
> > 
> > Ummm... is there such a 'run_this_script' or am I indulging in wishful
> > thinking?
> > 
> 
> If the changes you make are in the ports files, porttools has a 'port
> diff' command (which uses a reference ports tree to create diffs
> against. You can use /usr/ports as that reference, and in fact I believe
> that is the default.
> 
> You can then just port diff > path-to-patch-file.diff, ready for
> attachment into a new bugzilla issue.
> 
> If the patch is against WRKSRC source code, you can
> 
> a) cp WRKSRC/file WRKSRC/file.orig
> b) edit file
> c) make makepatch (from the port dir)
> 
> makepatch recursively searches WRKSRC for *.orig files, and
> automatically creates correctly named patch-foo patch files in /files
> for you.
> 
> Hope that helps
koobs' reply got me to thinking. So I did a little searching
around in ports/Tools/scripts and found, I think, exactly what
you were referring/hoping for;

update-patches

Give it a look. It's intended to work almost exactly as you
described.

HTH

--Chris
> 
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> 
> koobs
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