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. 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? If there is a section in the handbook clarifying this, please just say so and I will go find it. Thanks! Russ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
