Porting Practice

[Chris]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:07:53 +1200 Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz said

> 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
I believe that "svn diff" is the preferred method for generating patches.
> 5. submit patch onto bugs.freebsd.org
> 
> Hope that helps.
> -- 
> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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