How to fetch and extract patches in archives?

[Zero King]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 09:57:58AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>On 18 March 2018 at 08:33, Zero King wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Port w3m needs patches from Debian to fix security issues. Currently,
>> the patches are added to the ports tree and takes ~800KiB. Since its
>> size will grow, I'd prefer to fetch the patches from Debian archives
>> (e.g. w3m_0.5.3-36.debian.tar.xz).
>>
>> I tried to add the archive and ${workpath}/.../020_debian.patch to
>> distfiles and patchfiles, but that didn't work because port(1) attempted
>> to fetch the patchfiles into ${distpath} and `DEBUG: Fetching distfile
>> failed: No such file or directory`.
>
>I would add the patches to distfiles and include debian site in
>master_sites. You then need to keep your fingers crossed that the main
>distfile is also packaged as tar.xz because you need to manually
>extract some of the files otherwise (MacPorts does not yet support
>extracting from different types of archives).

The main distfile is tar.gz. Should I mirror the patches elsewhere to
reduce the burden on our main repo? Homebrew has
https://github.com/Homebrew/formula-patches for example.

>I would imagine that
>    patchfiles ${worksrcdir}/.../020_debian.patch
>should work, but I didn't test.

This failed too.

-- 
Best regards,
Zero King
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