On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 23/01/2012 18:03, Maxim Khitrov wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> When I need to apply a custom patch to a port, I can set EXTRA_PATCHES >> make variable in /usr/local/etc/ports.conf (when using portconf), and >> the patch will be automatically applied whenever that port is built. >> Is there equivalent functionality for building FreeBSD world and >> kernel? >> >> When I run 'make update' in /usr/src, csup overwrites all local >> changes. There is a LOCAL_PATCHES variable, but it seems to apply only >> to 'make release'. >> >> If possible, I would like to avoid writing custom scripts for updating >> and building world, because at some point I will forget to use the >> script and build everything without the patches. How can I preserve >> the current behavior of running 'make update && make buildworld >> buildkernel' while automatically applying custom patches in between? > > Check the system sources out of svn? > > This way, you can apply your patches and the result is automatically > merged when you update the sources by 'svn up' -- unless there has been > a conflicting commit to the same file, when you may be required to > intervene manually.
I don't have subversion installed on any of my servers and that's a dependency that I would prefer to do without. Are there any changes I could make to /etc/make.conf that would allow me to execute an arbitrary command after the 'update' task is finished? - Max _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"