testing a patch

[Langer, Stephen A. (Fed)]

I hope this isn’t too dumb a question --  I’d like to test a patch to an existing port to see if it fixes a problem I’m having.   I copied the Portfile to a directory in a local repository, put the patch in the files subdirectory, and added a “patchfiles” line to the Portfile.   But when I try to build the port, port tries and fails, naturally, to download the patch from the server.   How do I tell it not to download the patch file?

What I’m trying to do is to apply this patch (https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/8133eceab8598cd00da2980cb3760ee2fe869ddb) to pango.

Thanks.
 -- Steve
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