Porting Practice

[Brandon helsley]

This is my personal workflow:
 
  1. Take a simple copy of the port into my working directory
 
  2. Get the port working in my working directory.
 
  3. cd my-working-directory
 
  4. diff -ruN /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-settings .  >  /tmp/nvidia-settings.patch
 
  5. submit patch onto bugs.freebsd.org
 

 
Hope that helps.
 
 

 

 
Yes it does, I understand how it works now, I just needed an example, and I can compare this with other methods to figure it out. How do you get the port working in your directory? Is it poudriere testport? Thanks a ton.
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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> On Jul 4, 2020 at 7:08 PM, Jonathan Chen  <jonc at chen.org.nz>  wrote:
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>  On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 12:47, Brandon helsley  <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com>  wrote:  >   >  I have gotten a couple of emails from portscout about ports that need updated and maintained. Before I go about updating and maintaining these ports I wanted to do some practice on a couple that I use like x11/nvidia-settings. I have recieved alot of help on the forums and from the documentation, but i'm still at a loss as to how the diff process works. [...] This is my personal workflow: 1. Take a simple copy of the port into my working directory 2. Get the port working in my working directory. 3. cd my-working-directory 4. diff -ruN /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-settings .  >  /tmp/nvidia-settings.patch  5. submit patch onto  bugs.freebsd.org  Hope that helps. -- Jonathan Chen  chen.org.nz>    
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