can someone instruct me on how to use this patch?

[Jonathan Horne]

> Jonathan Horne wrote:
>>> Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> someone from the kde list pointed me to this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/kdebase3/files/patch-post-3.5.3-screensavers?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>>>>
>>>> can someone please instruct me on what to do with this to i assume
>>>> merge
>>>> this
>>>> into my kde3 port sources?
>>> If you just cvsup your ports, this patch will be included...
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> i can probably do that... but until now, i have always used portsnap for
>> keeping my ports updated... if i cvsup once, how will that affect the
>> future of my ports tree?
>>
>> thanks,
>> jonathan
>>
>
> Just use portsnap to update your ports tree. It should have the patch as
> well since it was committed two weeks ago.
>
> HTH,
> Micah

perplexing... as i just rebuilt my entire system last weekend.  i did
restore my entire homedir from backup, so maybe i have some configuration
file thats blocking proper operation.  ill create another user on my
system later today, and see if the screensaver behavior isnt different.

thanks,
jonathan