Compiling projects into stable or release

[John-Mark Gurney]

Scott wrote this message on Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:42 +1100:
> I'm interested in VXLan and want to compile the project
> (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/vxlan/) into 10.x-RELEASE or
> -STABLE.  Is this possible?   Or must I download 11-CURRENT and install that?
> 
> I've done some searching and can't find an easy way to pick a project and
> compile it in.

So the code in vxlan is a copy of HEAD plus additional patches that add
the vxlan code.  So, if you check out the code, and compile it as you
would HEAD, you will get the feature...

If you want to use it on a previous branch, you'll need to either use
svn to possibly merge these chagnes to 10stable (I don't know how one
would go about doing it, or even if it is possible to do), or to
generate a patch against HEAD, and apply it to 10stable...

You could also ask the author if they have a version that applies to
10stable...

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