How to apply a patch to a port

[Clay Daniels]

Thanks Yasuhiro & Polytropon for your help. I was able to apply the 
patch. This is what I did, once again doing a fresh install first:

Read "man patch"! Good stuff!

Copied the patch file from a thumbdrive to /root/files. The file looked 
ok when I used cat to read it.

Went to main port directory, ran "make patch"

Went to the created /work/work/kms-drm-2d2852e directory, ran patch:

"patch -p0 -i /root/files/patch-linuxkpi_gplv2_src_linux__page.c"   (no 
-s - no need to be silent)

Patch dialog asked for the patch file, I entered " linux_page.c"

Patch dialog said file not found (as I expected) & asked "Skip [n] ?" , 
I hit return for default no.

Went back up two levels to main port directory, ran "make makepatch"

Then ran " make install" , "make clean"

The exit message said the package was installed, so I rebooted. The 
patch did not work as advertised, but I know it was installed as the 
behavior was different than an install without the patch.

The best thing is that I now have a pretty good idea of how to do this, 
and a better understanding of what I am doing.

I will just wait until Friday for the next weekly snapshot of 13.0 
Current. Maybe I will try 12.1-RC2 in the meantime.

Thanks again,

Clay