Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services

[Scot Hetzel]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Florent Peterschmitt
<florent at peterschmitt.fr> wrote:
> Le 24/03/2013 17:34, Scot Hetzel a écrit :
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Beeblebrox <zaphod at berentweb.com> wrote:
>>> I would be very happy to submit a patch, if I actually knew how to write
>>> one...
>>>
>>
>> It is quite simple to create the patch.
>>
>> If you have a working copy checked out with svn, then it would be:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/[category]/[port]
>> - Make the necessary changes to the port
>> - After testing the port make sure to do a 'make clean'
>> svn diff > port.diff
>>
>> Otherwise make a copy of the port:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/[catagory]
>> cp port port-orig
>> cd port
>> - Make the necessary changes to port
>> - After testing port make sure to do a 'make clean'
>> cd ..
>> diff -ruN port-orig port > port.diff
>>
>> Then just submit the port.diff in a PR using either send-pr or
>> http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html.
>>
>
> Is there a way to manually make a patch that will say :
>
> --- MyFile
> +++ MyFile
>
> Even if these files are in two distinct trees ?
>
There is always a way to do that:

diff -u /path/to/original/port/MyFile /path/to/modified/port/MyFile >
/place/to/save/patch/port.diff

or if you modifed several files:

diff -ruN /path/to/original/port /path/to/modified/port >
/place/to/save/patch/port.diff

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