Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 19:35:57 +0100 From: Alberto Villa <avilla@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, bf1783@gmail.com Cc: Grzegorz Blach <magik@roorback.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs fresh Blood! Message-ID: <201103061936.00444.avilla@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=d5hP-WHPQVJYk9%2B7gXd-3d5j_wgypz7QM2A6X@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=d5hP-WHPQVJYk9%2B7gXd-3d5j_wgypz7QM2A6X@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart5580264.k0xdkD2Kmm Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:35:10 b. f. wrote: > It sounds like you are using the wrong tools. Although portsnap (which > is not best suited for this purpose) has path arguments and an -l flag > that can be used to add or preserve local changes, and both=20 portmaster > and portupgrade have options to ignore certain ports or to substitute > alternative dependencies, you shouldn't have to make use of them. > Instead, you should probably be using CVS (or another version control > system that can import CVS), which will make merging and reverting > changes easier. And naturally you shouldn't run updating tools until > you've modified your tree. zfs should be mentioned as well. a tank/ports dataset with snapshots=20 and clones can make switching tree, rolling back and merging test ports=20 quite comfortable =2D-=20 Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more=20 useful than the sun." "Why?", he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more." --nextPart5580264.k0xdkD2Kmm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iJwEAAECAAYFAk1z1BAACgkQ3xiC6kQ1CosXggQAp9VpQePpQUsbeaqVG4p1uxRg Y6LB9WAUige52fISnseYRXQ53v3LZSyvjYpMzkme3rPXeiutprFuJof1pAd9KHgM xL+jPVxXcJyyY5y4g38Ah4V/pViOwRuX/2BDhxAn9Dq1DFvYDS1M8kqWJrKo9CQr gmDjR27DKF9DVQXXp54= =WIxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5580264.k0xdkD2Kmm--
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