pkgsrc on linux: using nbpatch instead of GNU patch

Posted Jan 27 2011, 14:57 by William Shallum [updated Jan 27 2011, 15:09]

Some patches won’t apply cleanly using GNU patch so use NetBSD’s patch instead (it’s in devel/nbpatch).

To use this for patch just install it and then add to pkg/etc/mk.conf:

TOOLS_PLATFORM.patch= /home/apps/pkg/bin/nbpatch

Your path to nbpatch may vary.

Edit: additional notes for me

install build-essential and libncurses5-dev
set CVS_RSH=ssh in .profile
use the recommended .cvsrc (probably OK since I don’t use CVS for anything else)
cvs -q -z3 -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-20xxQy -P pkgsrc
cd pkgsrc/bootstrap; ./bootstrap –unprivileged
add ~/pkg/sbin, ~/pkg/bin to PATH and ~/pkg/man to MANPATH in .profile

Recommended .cvsrc:

# recommended CVS configuration file from the pkgsrc guide
cvs -q -z3
checkout -P
update -dP
diff -upN
rdiff -u
release -d

– end additional notes

William Shallum