Sean Davis <dive-nb@endersgame.net> typed:
: Hi, I'm wondering what everyones preferred method of maintaining local changes
: to NetBSD src/pkgsrc is. I've tried a union mount (specifics below) but it had
: some oddities that I didn't like. Any ideas?
 
: files. To be specific, I was trying to add a patch-ah file to
: sysutils/xosview/patches and have it not show up in the 'real' pkgsrc, which is

Addition of patches is easy:

% echo >>/etc/mk.conf "LOCALPATCHES= /scratch/pkgsrc-local"

e.g. I have something like:

% ls -l /scratch/pkgsrc-local/news/inn
total 2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  master  - 942 Apr  7  2001 patch-geoff1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  master  - 630 Jul 18  2001 patch-geoff2
%

File names don't matter and they won't be validated (as per normal
patches and distinfo).

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