Subject: Re: pkgsrc question
To: webmaster@datazap.net <webmaster@datazap.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/16/2002 14:50:34
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, webmaster@datazap.net wrote:

> I need to install a package and I would like to be able to make changes to
> config.h, and install other patches. Is there a way I can do this through
> the packaging system?

Yes. Name your patches "patch-local-<something>", and they'll be applied
unconditionally without checksumming, and no checked out patch will ever
over-write them. The "cvs update" will list such files at the beginning,
with a leading question mark, but otherwise not bother them. It should
be safe to "sup" over them, too.

Frederick