How to fetch and extract patches in archives?

[Zero King]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 03:15:25PM +0000, G A wrote:
>What? Macports supports most archives zip, gz, bz2, etc
>
>extract the patches from the tarball add them to the
>Portname/Portfile/files/*.

That's the way I've been updating the w3m port. But the patches are
getting bigger (upstream is inactive) so it's not ideal to keep it in
the ports tree.

>You should probably manually apply the patches
>first to see if it breaks the build or fixes the issue. I would not blindly
>apply any Linux patch.
>
>
>On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 00:34 Zero King <l2dy at macports.org> 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`.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Zero King
>>

-- 
Best regards,
Zero King
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