Standrat way to apply custom patches. WAS [Re: Pleading for commit]

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hello,

While talking about custom patches, what's the best way to apply patches 
after every cvsup.

In my case I'm using custom patches for bktr and network driver nfe from 
HEAD.
As freebsd 6.2 is coming soon and there is work in progress on nfsmb
and I would like to test those new features/drivers I cvsup very often
and sometimes I forget to apply my custom patches :)
The good thing is that all my patches are in kernel sources so 
pre-compiling kernel
after patch solve the problem, but it is nasty when I do this remotely 
and forget
to compile nfe driver ;)

I saw few other distributions that have a directory with custom patches 
that are applied
before compilation. What's the FreeBSD way in this direction ? :)

Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:04:09PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
>   
>> In the last episode (Oct 24), Doug Barton said:
>>     
>>> Duane Whitty wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Patching it myself after every cvs update is not such a big deal; It
>>>> is forgetting to patch it after every update which is a big deal.
>>>>         
>>> Write a little script for yourself that calls cvsup then runs patch
>>> so you won't forget. :)
>>>       
>> Or cvsup the CVS repository (instead of using checkout mode), check out
>> your working tree from there, and run "cvs update" to update your
>> sources, which will preserve local changes.
>>     
>
> ... or run a local CVS/SVN/whatever repo and keep your
> customized FreeBSD source tree in it and import recent
> FreeBSD changes once in a while, as tough guys do... :-)
>
> Well, returning to the main topic, inability to run Flash
> can be a good thing, after all, if your browser doesn't
> have a knob to turn the damned thing off. :-)  But what
> else suffers in an unpatched system?
>
>   

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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