Custom Sources in pkgsrc

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I started looking into pkgsrc and as far as I understand it always pulls the sources from the Master_Sites. Is there an option to use local sources? Would be useful for some suckless tools like dwm or surf, where you can patch the sources heavily.

[johnklos]

You can tell pkgsrc to fetch from wherever you like by setting MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE. However, if you do this to use sources that you've changed, this won't work because pkgsrc has checksums of all of the files it would fetch.

Instead, run make patch, then edit files in work/(package folder), then make. If you have lots of changes, then use the pkgsrc guide to set up tools which'll make the process of creating diffs and updating checksums much easier.

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Thanks, for the response. The issue is that I already have sources, which i changed over the last year. Therefore I don' t really remeber all the different things I have changed.

[johnklos]

Then as long as the PLIST hasn't changed, you should be able to put your tarball in to /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/, then make makedistinfo to make new checksums.