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>