any use to build from source?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:

> One way is to put your local changes into files/patch-aa [1] using
> diff format.  Other times it's as simple as defining some environment
> variables by passing them into make, via /etc/make.conf, etc.

But what happens to the file files/patch-aa after I do 

    cd /usr/src
    make update

?  (I use CVSup to keep current.)

I'm sorry for not mentioning this at the beginning.

Kai