Charles,
On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Hello all,
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 hate to keep referring to my article but I go over this here:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html?
page=2
Basically, you can create a port with this in the Makefile:
CATEGORIES=local
VALID_CATEGORIES+= ${CATEGORIES}
I have an example port here:
http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/2006/04/13/examples/Makefile
Thanks goes to freebsd-ports.freebsd.org for this tip actually (which
is where I originally found out about it).
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.
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.
Beyond that, I have a few other questions:
-By default cvsup and (I assume portsnap) would nuke anything in /
usr/ports that was not part of the main ports tree. How can this
be dealt with in a way that none of the current/future port update
methods will not clobber our local tree?
Add "local" to /usr/ports/.cvsignore
-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?
Not sure how to handle this one. You may need to just either make
dependent packages or patch the Makefiles after you do a cvsup.
Besides that, cool tip about the patches being able to put in the
files dir and the bsd.local.mk file.
-Bjorn
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