Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:06, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree

Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VERSION% directory, then performed

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. i think it's best to add your patch to /usr/ports/blah/blah/files with name patch-something look at

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install

Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
I really should learn to hit reply-all on these lists... Kurt On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:54, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
Er, I also need to learn that reply-all skill! This'll make for easy understanding in the Archives 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: All, I've gotten a patch for a

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? There were no error messages. Then, being the incredibly

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
time after taking the blindingly obvious step of deleting the 'work' directory. This seems to be a key part of the process. The patch doesn't install correctly, as the make process generates the it installs correctly for sure :) as you don't see errors following: HttpHeader.cc:127:

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:41, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: time after taking the blindingly obvious step of deleting the 'work' directory. This seems to be a key part of the process. The patch doesn't install correctly, as the make process generates the it

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? There were no error messages. Then,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Ok, got it. I'm pretty much taking an easy day today to recover my broken

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt, can you please provide: # uname -a - the default tag you use in your

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem,