On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 08:32:53PM +0300, Andrew Krasavin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 12:31:39PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > > +MASTER_SITES0 =  https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/
> > > +# Fix gtest-help-test failure on OpenBSD
> > > +# https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/3751
> > > +PATCHFILES =     fix-gtest-help-test-{}631f4f99.patch:0
> > 
> > it just touches a couple of lines in one file. why not use a
> > normal ports patch?
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!
> 
> Personally, I thought that using PATCHFILES was always preferable to
> adding normal ports patches. Apparently this is not the case, and in
> cases where the changes are minor and affect a single file, 'normal ports
> patches' in the 'patches' directory should be preferred?

I also prefer automatically fetched patchfiles over in-tree maintained
ones, but other porters may have good reasons to do it the other way
around.

> In any case, my pull-request is now merged into main branch, so, you
> can just delete cited code and set GH_COMMIT to
> '06519cedc3159de8b36a504766ad6b7966555f10'.

Great!

> (I will be able to send you the patch when I will be at my
> openbsd-machine, right now it is, alas, not so)
> 
> -- 
> Wbr, Andrew Krasavin
> 

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