How to remove a patch from a port?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:06:55 -0700
Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at spymac.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering how to remove a custom patch for a port. I am sort of new 
> at this, but I've managed to learn how to patch a port and upgrade it 
> for testing. But I'm not at all sure how to remove that patch if need 
> be. What I've been doing is removing a chunk of the ports tree with 
> cd /usr/ports && rm -rf */*portname* and then cvsup'ping again, but 
> this doesn't seem right or very efficient. I've read the man page for 
> patch, but the only thing I can come up with is the reverse option, 
> which I must admit I don't totally understand. Can anyone explain this 
> in a way that makes sense?

If I understand what you want correctly, all you have to do is to rename
the patch from:

/usr/ports/cat/your_port/files/patch-you_want_not_applied to something
that does not begin with 'patch'.


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