<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Aug 30, 2017, at 10:44, Ken Cunningham wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">When trying to fix broken ports, I have so far been using the method of copying the source file to source.orig, editing the source files in place, and then noting the files I worked on, to individually diff them at the end to individual patch files.<br class=""><br class="">It's easy to understand, but not super efficient, especially when I make a number of changes in different files.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This basically describes what I do. I'm happy with this process because I understand it.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I do a variation on this scheme as well. I have two scripts</div><div><br class=""></div><div>1) to create the .orig file (using path information from port and the relative path)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>2) to generate the diff and place the properly named patch file in the appropriate files directory.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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