On Mon, 15 Jun 2026, Greg A. Woods wrote:
I don't like the idea of maintaining a separate fork and using it to create new alternative distfiles just for pkgsrc to use though. The whole idea of starting with the original third-party distfile, checking its integrity, and then independently patching it via mechanisms in pkgsrc conveys a much higher degree of trust, at least in my opinion.
What I meant wasn't this, necessarily. I meant that you can manage your fork in a VCS, then export each commit as a patch with something like git format-patch and commit that.
It is easy enough to use git apply to get the VCS state back from these patches.
-- Benny