testing a patch

[Ryan Carsten Schmidt]

On Dec 16, 2024, at 13:28, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) wrote:
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> 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?

The only reason MacPorts would try to download the patch file is if it cannot find it in the files directory so verify that the patch file name is the same as what you put in the patchfiles variable, including the filename extension. You may want to turn on showing filename extensions in the Finder to help with this.