local patches

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 2, 2010, at 14:47, Björn Lundin wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to macports and this list.

Welcome to MacPorts!


> I installed mediatomb, but some functionality is missing.
> Youtube/Apple preview changed.
> However, at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediatomb/forums/forum/440751/topic/3816230>
> seems
> to be a fix. but it is not yet in macports.
> So - were does the downloaded source end up? in what dir?
> I cannot find it...
> 
> can I just make a patch, and tell macports to use it? Or what is the
> common way here.
> I can, if I find the files, issue a make && make install again?
> or will that dowload the source from macports again, overwriting the changes?

Try:

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.patches.html#development.patches.source