Re: hacking pkgsrc

[Johnny Lam <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:41:18AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > If you have a patch for pkgsrc, feel free to email this mailing list (if
> > not too long), to the MAINTAINER, and/or submit using GNATS/send-pr if
> > you don't want it forgotten.
>
>
> Also worth mentioning is LOCALPATCHES.  If you want to apply a patch to the
> sources on your system, but this patch isn't useful for others, you can put
> it under ${LOCALPATCHES}/category/package, so that you don't have to
> manually patch the sources everytime you (re)build that package.  

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.

        Cheers,

        -- Johnny Lam <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>