Patching a dependency

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Nov 18 18:04:57 PST 2005


On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:36:49PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I maintain the security/barnyard port.  I'm working on a new port, 
> security/sguil-server.  The upcoming version makes some major changes, that 
> include the need to patch barnyard.
> 
> Is there a way, within one port, to patch a dependent application, 
> regardless of whether or not it's already installed?  If so, how?

No.

If you really need this, you'll have to either make a new slave port
of barnyard that includes the patch and depend on that, or incorporate
the patch into barnyard by default.

kris

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