Hello,

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Virgile Andreani <virgile.andreani@anbuco.fr> wrote:

On 17/06, David L. Craig wrote:
> Are there any good approaches to maintaining one's localized
> package tweaks across prt-get sysup and release upgrades?

As a CRUX novice, I too would be interested in what people do in
this situation. Most (if not all) configuration of some packages
that I use (dwm, st, surf...) is done at compile time, in the
config.h file. Unfortunately any modification is silently erased
at every upgrade.

I would probably fork the port, possibly include personal patches,
customise the Pkgfile at will, and install the forked port
instead. This, however, makes the upgrade process more cumbersome
than it was since one does now not only have to `prt-get sysup`
but also to pull the potential updates of the official ports into
all of its personal ones and also upgrade them.

One option is to use the git driver for your ports (/usr/ports/drivers/git after installing opt/git). As far as I know it's not officially supported by CRUX, but once you have your ports stored as a git repository, you could theoretically keep a local branch with your patches to the official ports. After a ports -u, you could then merge your local branch with the upstream repo. Disclaimer: I don't do this.

Ryan