On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 06:30 Helen Koike <helen.ko...@collabora.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am new to the community, I am maintaining two packages and I would > like to check with you if there is a better workflow to do this. > > The upstream project of the port I am maintaining is held in github, and > I also have patches in the /usr/ports/sysutils/myport/file/ folder. > > So I keep a fork of the upstream project with a branch containing a > commit with the patches from the /usr/ports/sysutils/myport/file/. > > Every time I need to update the port to a newer version, I do a git pull > in this branch, then I run a script [1] to re-generate the patches in > the /usr/ports/sysutils/myport/file/ > > This script basically generates a file.orig of all modified files in > git, then copy the modified file to WORK_DIR, then run make makepatch. > > > for file in ${CHANGES}; do > mv ${WORK_DIR}/${file} ${WORK_DIR}/${file}.orig > cp ${PROJECT_PATH}/${file} ${WORK_DIR}/${file} > done > make makepatch > > > I would like to know if there is a better way to do this (some tool that > I am not aware of?). > > [1] > > https://github.com/helen-fornazier/bsd-update-patches/blob/master/freebsd-gce-update.sh > > Thanks > Helen > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Submit your patches upstream, once they get accepted your work on FreeBSD is greatly simplified. Best, Owen > _______________________________________________ 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"