how to make a patch

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 13:20:00 PDT 2007


Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, do you have the latest ports tree? If not, it maybe a good idea
> to update your ports tree and verify that the bug is still there.
> Second, since it concerns the ports be sure to checkThe FreeBSD
> Porters Handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ and
> especially Testing Your Port chapter:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/testing.html
>   

The bug happened because my port tree was too new... what I mean by that
is I just fetched it about 10 mins before I did that build and the error
is that the port was unaware of 8-CURRENT


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