Hallo Charles Sprickman, > I'm finding that there are a number of ports that we need to patch for > some functionality that's unique to our business (qmail, mailfront, etc.). > Currently we just do "make patch" and then apply our patches. This works, > but is a bit of a pain to maintain. > Is there a way to create a "local" category? ie: /usr/ports/LOCAL
I like to point out a very easy way: $ mkdir /usr/ports/LOCAL $ echo "PKGCATEGORY?=LOCAL" > /usr/ports/LOCAL/makefile.inc $ echo "PKGNAMESUFFIX?=-local" >> /usr/ports/LOCAL/makefile.inc Copy a port you like to change into this. build and install it from there. You need _no_ modifications on a port. PKGNAMESUFFIX or PKGNAMEPREFIX can be set to make standard and local packages coexists. If the master ports gets updated, you habe to merge the changes. Or you create a slave-port., which referes to the master ports in the normal ports tree. All base tools support this. > We might occasionally look at the real qmail/mailfront/djbdns or other > ports and see if there's anything we want to pull in, but we'd most likely > be doing more work with merging in more of our own patches/software. a) You can still add your own patches in /usr/ports/category/portname/files/ b) You can create in /usr/ports/category/portname/ a Makefile.local that defines additional steps, dependencies ... > Is there some mechanism that I'm missing to deal with a local category? > I've been googling without much luck, and I didn't see this addressed in > the porter's handbook. The minium requierement is: /usr/ports/LOCAL/makefile.inc:PKGCATEGORY=LOCAL > -How does one handle packages that depend on say, qmail, but I now want to > depend on local-qmail? I know portupgrade can be tought this by setting > an alternate pkgdep, but is there any clever way of doing this so that > when you're not using portupgrade the deps are adjusted? My pkg_update tool supports this. For each hostname there is an optional sed_file. $ head /usr/ports/local/update/data/depends.* ==> /usr/ports/local/update/data/depends.k3.dinoex.de <== s=www/lynx$=www/lynx-ssl= s|lang/gcc34|local/gcc34-objc| s|lang/gcc33|local/gcc33-objc| See: http://people.freebsd.org/~dinoex/batch/README http://people.freebsd.org/~dinoex/batch/pkg_update This is an updated version of: http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=27 http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/uploads/media/EBSD04_27.pdf kind regards Dirk - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany - [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~dinoex/errorlogs/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
