On 2011-05-17 06:32, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > Hi. > > In a (possibly foolish) attempt to add a third-party patch to an application > I use *without* abandoning the ports tree for this app, I'm trying to make a > local modification to the port to download and include the patch in the build > process. The problem I'm running into is that it is distributed from a > source distribution site that uses a downloads CGI rather than a direct URL > to distribution files, and the URI has nothing whatsoever to do with the name > of the resulting file. This, obviously, breaks MASTER_SITES and DISTFILES > because what I have to put in DISTFILES doesn't match what would go in the > distinfo file. > > I'm poking around at possible alternatives, but nothing really stands out in > the reading I've done. Is this sort of thing supported by the ports system > at all, or should I just abandon this completely and switch to fully manual > builds? > > I briefly looked at downloading the patch file, splitting it up (it includes > several patches) and including the resulting files in files/patch-*. This > would be worth the work, but I'm also toying with eventually submitting my > changes as a patch to the port with a line in OPTIONS to include/ignore the > 3rd party patches and I can't find a way to wrap an ifdef around patch-* > files in the Makefile, since they seem to be auto-discovered and acted on. > > If anyone has any advice on how to handle this in a way that solves both > problems, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance! > Matt Pounsett >
Hi Matt, there is a way, sample ports: dns/djbdns, dns/bind94, mail/postfix (VDA patches) and many more A short description can be found in Mk/bsd.port.mk A longer description can be found in the porters handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html Additional you can place a patch without the prefix "patch-" into the portname/files directory, then use for example .if defined(PATCH_THIS_FOO) EXTRA_PATCHES+= .endif _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
