Patching problem

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Monday, January 23, 2006 15:03:26 -0800 Doug Barton 
<dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I'm working on a slave port that applies some patches that are not
>> needed in the master port.
>>
>> Three of the files being patched are op_sguil.c, op_sguil.h and
>> op_plugbase.c.  Those files exists in WRKDIR/src/output-plugins when the
>> tarball is extracted.  How should I name these patches so that they will
>> be applied?
>
> Take a look at EXTRA_PATCHES In the porter's handbook. I used this method
> to include a patch from the windowmaker distribution in that port.
>
EXTRA_PATCHES is for *fetching* patches from more than one location.  I 
don't need to fetch patches.  I need to apply the ones that I've created.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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University of Texas at Dallas
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