On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Kubilay Kocak <ko...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 9/25/17 2:08 PM, Russell Haley wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Section 4.3 of the porters handbook talks about making modifications >> to a private copy of a tarball and recording the steps. >> >> Section 4.4 talks about changing directories into the affected ports >> dir and running make makepatch to generate patch files. >> >> I am unsure how the makepatch target is supposed to find my private >> directory. Since I was confused, I created patches, added them to the >> port, ran make, then ran make makepatch and the system re-generated >> new "makepatch" patches. > > Quite a number of new users have raised the same question on IRC. > >> So, my question is thus: >> >> To me, section 4.4 seems vague about where changes should be made, >> which is compounded by the information in section 4.3. Can the >> makepatch target ask for and find a private directory, or should the >> handbook be clarified to state that the changes should be made to the >> 'work' folder? If the later is true, I assume there is some proper >> workflow to keep changes from being destroyed while testing? > > The handbook section needs to be updated to be less ambiguous with > regard to where things should be done. > > I'd be happy to provide a docs committer with verbiage if they can help > with formatting/commit. Hi,
If you provide the verbiage, I'll attempt a patch. :) Russ >> If there is a section in the handbook clarifying this, please just say >> so and I will go find it. >> >> Thanks! >> Russ > > ./koobs _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
