Subject: Re: hacking pkgsrc
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 03/03/2006 09:22:46
Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:42:58PM -0500, Johnny Lam wrote:
>
>>It is also a little-known fact that you can keep the patches in the
>>pkgsrc tree if you name them patch-local-*, e.g.
>>pkgsrc/devel/gmake/patches/patch-local-1. These patches are applied
>>during the patch phase automatically.
>
>
> Ehrr, indeed, I didn't know it. What's the difference with LOCALPATCHES,
> then?
I think LOCALPATCHES is to satisfy some folks' need to have a read-only
pkgsrc tree, in which case one could allow LOCALPATCHES to point to a
separate, writable location where local patches could be stored. I
personally find LOCALPATCHES kind of klunky because you need to maintain
a separate hierarchy of package directories, and I also much prefer to
keep all of the patches for a package in a single location.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>