Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

[Kurt Buff]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn
<mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the
>> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small
>> problem, but don't know how to install the updated port.
>>
>> I cd'ed into the
>> /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VERSION% directory, then
>> performed 'patch <patch-name' successfully, AFAICT.
>>
>> Then I did a make, but got no output.
>>
>> So - I'm obviously lacking clue here. Anyone have a spare set?
>
> Don't feel like reading the entire thread atm, but for reference:
> - Patches need to have relative paths, where the root of the path corresponds
> to the port's notion of $PATCH_WRKSRC
> - You can find out this directory by running:
>        % make -C /usr/ports/category/portname -V PATCH_WRKSRC
>  The default is $WRKSRC which is $WRKDIR/$DISTNAME by default.
>  Example:
>        % make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd -V PATCH_WRKSRC
>        /stable/usr/obj/usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd/work/nagios-statd-3.12
>
> - Patches are automatically applied if they reside in the port's notion of
> PATCHDIR and are named patch-*
> - You can find out this directory by running:
>        %make -C /usr/ports/category/portname -V PATCHDIR
>  The default is $.CURDIR/files.
>  Example:
>        % make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd -V PATCHDIR
>        /usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd/files
>
> - In order to apply a new patch after you have previously gone past the patch
> stage (configure, build, install), either run make clean or:
>        % rm $(make -C /usr/ports/category/portname -V PATCH_COOKIE)
>  The above can cause problems, with the build. The normal course of action is
> to make clean.

Excellent. I will be trying this tomorrow - I'm leaving work early
today to get some things taken care of.

Many thanks for this.

Kurt