Question regarding diffs of ports that need UIDs and GIDs

[Adam Weinberger]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:41 AM Michael Chiu <null.yuuji at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I’m creating a port which required to create a UID and GID to set the right permission of files and to lower the permission when the program start as daemon. I followed the Porter’s Handbook which mentioned how to create .diff files for the port.
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> However, it does not mention anything about what porter should do when the UIDs and GIDs files were modified.
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> Should I create a single .diff file which contains both changes to the port and UIDs/GIDs files, or if I should create 3 diff files, one for the port, one for the UIDs and one for the GIDs?
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> Michael.

Hi Michael,

Great question! You can put all the changes into a single patch (make
sure to run diff from /usr/ports/). One diff makes it easier for
committers to see and apply the changes.

# Adam


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