On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Angelo Turetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please accept my apologies for being too harsh in my comment. It was not my > intention to be offensive.
No problem. Since I have been working on this in every free second that I have since thursday evening I am starting to get grumpy about this. > Yes, I know that FreeBSD's /usr/src/release/Makefile is a nightmare, but > still it has hooks for tolerating some amount of local modifications (i.e > EXTSRCDIR, EXTPORTSDIR). > > Back to pfsense, why use /home/pfsense/pfsense as a working (scratch) dir? > I've been thinking for some months, instead of cleaning the source dir and > then checking it out from scratch the next time, about copying the files to > the staging area and always leave the source tree alone. Maybe there is some confusion of how this is supposed to work. You should be putting your changes and such into the custom_overlay options. See pfsense_local.sh and grep for overlay. Or maybe I am misunderstanding the types of changes that you are trying to make? > Every couple of months I try working my mind around the pfPorts > peculiarities, but I must say that I always get pissed about the huge > variability of the shell scripts used in builder system, and the 'all from > scratch' attitude of the builder system itself. I've already lost some set > of patches twice because I forgot to save it before building. It is not all from scratch. Everything utilizes FreeSBIE2. > I hope the migration to git goes well, I promise I'll try to help you if I > can save my work locally and not redo it every time from scratch. custom_overlay is not sufficient? > And, by the way, thanks a lot for keeping your commitment to the project so > high. Thanks. It's nice that my time and dedication is noticed every 15th blue moon. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
