Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the
> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small
> problem, but don't know how to install the updated port.

i think it's best to add your patch to /usr/ports/blah/blah/files

with name patch-something

look at existing as an example