submitting changes to a port

[Walter Venable]

There are also wonderful tools just for port submitters.  Check out the 
"porttools" port.

Walter Venable


>From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at withagen.nl>
>To: barner at in.tum.de
>CC: ports at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: submitting changes to a port
>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:08:16 +0200
>
>Simon Barner wrote:
>
>>the common way is to
>>- make a copy of the port's directory (e.g. ports/category/ports.orig)
>>- modify the port (ports/category/port) until you're satisfied
>>- submit the output of
>>
>>
>>
>>cd ports/category && diff -ruN port.orig port
>>
>>
>Before or after
>    make extract
>    make patch
>    make
>
>You see there lies my question. I've also don the original port, but it did 
>not work on amd64.
>And thus we will be seeing possibly 2 patches for one file if I do the diff 
>after "make patch".
>So I would expect to have diffs to the original source
>
>>in a problem report (don't forget to Cc: the maintainer (if it's
>>
>>
>>!= ports at FreeBSD.org)).
>>
>>
>I'm the maintainer. But I do not have cvs-rights, nor would I want to have.
>
>>>2) I need a TMP directory to install some of the tools in, as they are 
>>>needed as bootstrap for other tools to build.
>>>   Now I've got a variable TMP which is currently set to /tmp.
>>>   Where/how should I do that?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You should do that in a subdirectory of ${WRKSRC}, e.g.
>>${WRKSRC}/bootstrap (this directory is guaranteed to be writable for
>>you port, and it's cleaned automaticalle in the ``make clean'' stage.
>>
>>
>So ${WRKSRC}/tmp would do the trick.
>
>Thanx, for helping me out,
>--WjW
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