Did a patch get overwritten?

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:20:41 +0000
"Miller, Vincent (Rick)" <vmiller at verisign.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a patch that I applied to the FreeBSD source in /usr/src/.  I
> then executed a make buildworld that succeeded.  I ran make release
> to generate media.  However, it looks as though the driver I patched
> was updated by CVS during the make release process as seen in the
> make release output.  Did it, indeed, overwrite the source I patched
> with what was available on the CVS server?
> 
> If so, at what point do I need to modify the source so that I can
> build a new release with this driver patch?

man 7 release

Check EXTSRCDIR.

-Herbert