On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 09:57:58AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 18 March 2018 at 08:33, Zero King wrote:Hi,Port w3m needs patches from Debian to fix security issues. Currently, the patches are added to the ports tree and takes ~800KiB. Since its size will grow, I'd prefer to fetch the patches from Debian archives (e.g. w3m_0.5.3-36.debian.tar.xz). I tried to add the archive and ${workpath}/.../020_debian.patch to distfiles and patchfiles, but that didn't work because port(1) attempted to fetch the patchfiles into ${distpath} and `DEBUG: Fetching distfile failed: No such file or directory`.I would add the patches to distfiles and include debian site in master_sites. You then need to keep your fingers crossed that the main distfile is also packaged as tar.xz because you need to manually extract some of the files otherwise (MacPorts does not yet support extracting from different types of archives).
The main distfile is tar.gz. Should I mirror the patches elsewhere to reduce the burden on our main repo? Homebrew has https://github.com/Homebrew/formula-patches for example.
I would imagine that
patchfiles ${worksrcdir}/.../020_debian.patch
should work, but I didn't test.
This failed too. -- Best regards, Zero King
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