Where to maintain local patches to /usr/src

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:04:08AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> I would like make a small modification to ntpd on my local system.   
> I'm running 6.2 RELEASE p4, and am updating that with csup with
> 
>  *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2
> 
> Is there a recommended way of maintaining my own personal patches?   
> (The patch is very unlikely to be of use or recommended to anyone else).
> 
> Unless someone tells me of a better scheme, I'm going to put my  
> patches in
> 
>   /usr/local/patches
> 
> and process them with
> 
>  patch -d /usr/src

People usually use CVS to manage their sources, which is designed to
integrate with arbitrary local patches.

Kris