Using cvsup + make world, and keeping custom patches

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue May 10 06:18:49 PDT 2005


patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> writes:

> I recently had a need to patch the FreeBSD's jail utility to support
> multiple IP addresses. On a recent "make update" using cvsup, my
> patched versions of the jail files were blown away, and now I'll need
> to reapply the patches.
> 
> Does anyone have a good strategy for including some custom patches
> when doing a make update in /usr/src?

Keep a local cvs tree, and keep your patches in that?  
I think the cvsup documentation has some guidance on how to make that work...


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list