Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-14 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 11/14/06, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-14 Thread Dirk Meyer
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

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Doug Barton
Matthew Seaman wrote: > That's a generic problem with ports -- instead of registering a > dependency on the package that provided the file that satisfied the > test specified by the FOO_DEPENDS variable in the port Makefile, the > dependency is registered on the default package to install to resol

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Bjorn Nelson
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 w

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Craig Boston
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > 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, >

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: 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. Check the June 8 archives for this mailing list, for my message wit

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Charles Sprickman wrote: > Is there a way to create a "local" category? ie: /usr/ports/LOCAL Create /usr/ports/Makefile.local containing: SUBDIR+= LOCAL > -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

Re: creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
You've got a bunch of misconceptions. In this case, that turns out to be good, because the solutions are a lot simpler than you think. Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I'm finding that there are a number of ports that we need to patch for > some functionality that's

Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
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