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How to manage local patches to the FreeBSD ports tree?

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What is the preferred way to manage local patches in the FreeBSD ports tree. As an example look at . This port installs the script. This script defines applications to be used for different url types. The default applications do not match my system. So, what to do? I used two rather unsatisfying wa…

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Option 2. I have a handful of patches to particular ports. If one has a newer version, update your ports tree, then copy in the modified patches and manually run 'make patch' to see if it patches cleanly. Then 'make' to see if builds.

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