Porting Practice

[Brandon helsley]

In general:
 1. extract the original sources elsewhere
 2. hack it to compile
 3. compare the hacks against the original sources again to generate diffs.
 4. put the diffs into the files/ directory of the port
 5. Tweak the Makefile for all targets (fetch, extract, build, stage, etc)


Im not sure what "original sources" means or "hack it to compile". Really would you please go into more detail about the first three steps and explain the targets in step five? I understood your first message well and can get the nvidia-settings.patch placed in /tmp/ but before that step when I am supposed to... get the port working in my working directory I get stuck.
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From: Jonathan Chen [jonc at chen.org.nz]
Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 7:07 PM
To: Brandon helsley
Cc: freebsd-ports
Subject: Re: Porting Practice

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.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>