Re: Process for patch/build/install/modify/rebuild/reinstall

[tannj <fake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:55:28 -0500, Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:29:53PM -0500, fake@email.address wrote:
> > At first I thought I could modify code in the work directory and run
> > bmake  from /usr/pkgsrc/x11/xorg-server, but that didn't work.  Please
> > enlighten  me with a better way.
>
> Once a build has finished, running bmake again in the pkgsrc directory
> won't do anything anymore (even if you made changes), because it sets a
> .build_done "cookie" in your work dir.  Just remove it, and run bmake
> again.
>
> Btw, you can save local patches in a ${LOCALPATCHES} directory, so you
> don't have to apply them manually each time.  Pkgsrc will apply them  
> after
> the pkgsrc patches.  Just set LOCALPATCHES=/some/where in /etc/mk.conf  
> and
> put your patches in $LOCALPATCHES/x11/xorg-server/*.
>
> 	Geert


Thanks!  That's just what I needed.