Tracking local port hacks?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 27), Erik Trulsson said:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:05:16PM -0500, Rob Ellis wrote:
> > We sometimes find it necessary to make some small change to a port
> > before installing it, and need a way to track/merge these changes
> > as ports are updated. Is there a recommended way of doing that?
> > 
> > The cvsup faq (http://www.cvsup.org) suggests that it's possible to
> > get sources in "cvs mode" and it has some suggestions for managing
> > a local branch. Is that the best way to do it? Anyone know how BIG
> > the ports tree is if we get it via cvsup in "cvs mode"?
> 
> Using cvsup to maintain a copy of the whole (or part of the) CVS
> repository, and then using cvs to check out the branch/version you
> want is certainly one way to do it.  Cvs (unlike cvsup) understands
> local changes and can merge changed files (assuming the changes don't
> conflict of course, then you have to do some editing by hand.)
> 
> I don't know if it is the *best* way of doing it, but it is the way I
> do it and it works fairly well.

I do it too. It takes a bit longer to update, since you have to "cvsup"
then cvs "update -dP", but I do it at night via cron, and get an email
the next morning if there were any conflicts with local changes.

> The ports part of the CVS repository uses around 600MB of disk space.

Another plus is you get instant access to cvs logs and diffs.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com