Patching a Java package substituting a precompiled class

[Enrico Maria Crisostomo]

Hi Craig,

You and all the FreeBSD community are welcome: I do that because I do want FreeBSD to be alive and kicking.

Thanks for that suggestion: I like it and I'm updating the port right now.  logstash contains the jruby jar which in turn contains the jnr-ffi classes: I've got to patch the jar anyway in order to substitute the affected classes, but at least I'm grabbing the binaries (logstash and my jnr-ffi fork) using DISTFILES.

In the meantime I'll periodically ping that PR.

Thank you very much Craig, 
-- 
Enrico

> On 19 Oct 2014, at 02:24, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Enrico Maria Crisostomo <enrico.m.crisostomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m trying to fix a Java port (logstash) that's crashing in FreeBSD because of a bug in a Java class in a JAR that's included as a dependency.  Three different persons, included I, have submitted a PR upstream (you can see mine here: https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi/pull/26) but the activity in that project is pretty slow and nobody has taken action yet.
> 
> 
> Thanks for doing that.  I lot of people in the Java world
> don't care much about FreeBSD, so this process can be painful.
> 
> There is another option that you may wish to consider.
> 
> (1)  Take your https://github.com/emcrisostomo/jnr-ffi/ fork on github.
> 
> (2)  Make a release of the jnr package and put it at https://github.com/emcrisostomo/jnr-ffi/releases/
> 
> (3)  Change the FreeBSD port to use your version of jnr
> 
> (4)  When the upstream version of jnr changes to accept your patch, delete your fork, and change the port back to using the original jnr.
> 
> Thanks for doing this.  It takes some pushing but eventually upstream will take our patches.  I did the same thing for https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1387 and Jenkins.
> 
> --
> Craig

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