Chris Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I've been a NetBSD user for many years, and am looking more > at FreeBSD now. Trying to build myself a system, I find that I have a > long-held delta to a package on my NetBSD system, and I keep it > in a patch-local-* file in NetBSD pkgsrc. > > I can't figure out if FreeBSD ports has a way to keep and automatically > apply "local" patches to ports. I want to modify the way the internals of > a package/port operate, and not in a way that makes sense to move up- > stream. It's just my preference. > > Is there a way in FreeBSD ports to keep a "make this change to the > source code after extracting and before compiling" type of thing in the > tree?
I'm not aware of something similar to pkgsrc's $LOCALPATCHES, but you can still drop local patches in the "files" directory of the port: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html Fabian
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