[dwm] Patching dwm source code

[Annagul]

DWM users,

I want to apply the "pertag" patch to dwm.c file (and other patches), but I'm wondering if there is any way to do it like "config.h-and-savedconfig-USE", I mean, apply the patch and emerge dwm.

I know I can use mercurial and manage dwn sources myself, but I prefer that Portage handle all installed software in my box.

Thank you for your time.

[NeddySeagoon]

Annagul,

Maybe. It may not be in your version of portage yet and it may need a later EAPI than the ebuild uses.

Make the dir /etc/portage/paches/<catagory>/<package> just as you would find in the portage tree.
Drop your patches in there with file names ending in .diff or .patch

If all is well, your patches will be applied. To can do versioning too, so that a patch is applied to some versions only.
At the end the source prepare you should see something like :-

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 * Applying user patches from /etc/portage/patches//media-tv/xbmc ...
 *   xbmc-9999-headers.patch ...
 *   xbmc-9999-libpng-1.5.patch ...

Thats an example for xbmc.

[Annagul]

Thank you for your answer, NeddySeagoon.

dwm ebuild uses EAPI 4, but I think it doesn't use the epatch_user() function defined in eutils eclass.

I'm going to investigate further and see what I can do.

[Loko123]

Is the 'possible' solution of NeddySeagoon working with current dwm? I would like to apply some patches (e.g. fibonacci, pertag,...) but I dont know how to apply them.

Any help would be appreciated!

[NeddySeagoon]

Loko123,

Did you try it ?

[tclover]

force applying your patch with something like:

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post_src_unpack() {
        cd "${S}"
        epatch_user
}

If it still doesn't work, you'll have to add epatch_user to the ebuilds src_prepare() manually in your local overlay.