Re: per-topic or per-file patches (was: pkgquilt)

On Mon, 15 Jun 2026, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> I don't like the idea of maintaining a separate fork and using it to
> create new alternative distfiles just for pkgsrc to use though.  The
> whole idea of starting with the original third-party distfile, checking
> its integrity, and then independently patching it via mechanisms in
> pkgsrc conveys a much higher degree of trust, at least in my opinion.

What I meant wasn't this, necessarily. I meant that you can manage your 
fork in a VCS, then export each commit as a patch with something like git 
format-patch and commit that.

It is easy enough to use git apply to get the VCS state back from these 
patches.

-- 
Benny