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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question about making patches Date: 15 Mar 1997 22:38:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5gf8cm$p8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3328B540.41C67EA6@iamerica.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37120 Matthew Kiser <mkiser@iamerica.net> wrote: > I want to know how to make a patch. Basically, by diff -c oldfile newfile or diff -u oldfile newfile If it's more than one file, you can also diff directories: diff -u -r olddir newdir > I've made some changes to xbiff, > such as the ability to play audio files instead of that boring beep, > the ability to fork off your mail program, and XPM support. I would > like to contribute these, so I need to make a patch. Well, if this means a diff to add to an existing FreeBSD port, do it this way: cd /usr/ports/x11/xbiff make configure cd work/xbiff cp -p myfile.c myfile.c.orig vi myfile.c # edit what you need diff -u myfile.c.orig myfile.c > ../../patches/patch-xy patch-xy is the next patch in sequence that would fit there. Repeat the above for any files you had to patch. If you have been adding a new file, use /dev/null as the source. You might squash more than a single patch into one file (by using >>), but it's wise to only put related diffs into a single file. When you're done, submit the new patch files to the maintainer of the port. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)