Generating port changes easily

Patrick Powell papowell at astart.com
Tue Mar 3 15:22:01 UTC 2015


On 02/27/15 23:34, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 28/02/2015 3:35 AM, Patrick Powell wrote:
>> I have made some modifications to a port - couple of lines in the
>> Makefile,  and an updated pkg-plist.
>>
>> Once upon a time I was shown a script (run_this_script?) to help with
>> updating a port.
>>
>> 1.  Copy the original files in the port to XXX.orig  (or something)
>>        For example cp Makefile Makefile.orig
>> 2.  Make your changes
>>        For example: vi Makefile  ....
>> 3.  Now run this script which will generate a DIFF file which can be
>> posted:
>>        run_this_script ... >/tmp/changes.shar  ?
>>        run_this_script ... >/tmp/diffs                 ?
>> 4.  Post the generated file to bugzilla with an update request.
>>
>> Ummm... is there such a 'run_this_script' or am I indulging in wishful
>> thinking?
>>
> If the changes you make are in the ports files, porttools has a `port
> diff` command (which uses a reference ports tree to create diffs
> against. You can use /usr/ports as that reference, and in fact I believe
> that is the default.
>
> You can then just port diff > path-to-patch-file.diff, ready for
> attachment into a new bugzilla issue.
>
> If the patch is against WRKSRC source code, you can
>
> a) cp WRKSRC/file WRKSRC/file.orig
> b) edit file
> c) make makepatch (from the port dir)
>
> makepatch recursively searches WRKSRC for *.orig files, and
> automatically creates correctly named patch-foo patch files in /files
> for you.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> --
>
> koobs
>
>
Excellent suggestions, both.  I tried port diff AND make makepatch - both
seemed to work as advertised.

Thanks for the help!

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