Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:12:28 +0000 (UTC) From: "G. Paul Ziemba" <pz-freebsd-ports@ziemba.us> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested patch for bsd.ports.mk Message-ID: <o4gpic$1r47$1@usenet.ziemba.us> References: <6453cdb9-b27a-e061-7249-51d84dbaefcc@freebsd.org>
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julian@freebsd.org (Julian Elischer) writes: >Sometime ago I proposed the following change. >I got several "yes please" from members of the public, >but no actionable response from members of the ports group >So I am asking again. >> +# EXTRA_PATCH_TREE - where to find extra 'out-of-tree' patches >> +# Points to a directory hierarchy with the same >> layout >> +# as the ports tree, where local patches can be >> found. >> +# This allows a third party to keep their patches in >> +# some other source control system if needed. > [...] Thank you for raising this question. I may have given one of the above-mentioned "yes" responses, and am still enthusiastically in favor of this patch. We have been discussing it for at least the last eight years (CF the thread started at <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?gh1l3n$22rv$1>; on Dec 1, 2008, which references this very patch from Dmitry Marakasov). I have used it in my (admittedly very small) network since then, first for building ports in situ and more recently with poudriere. It's been invaluable in helping me manage site-local changes. -- G. Paul Ziemba FreeBSD unix: 10:11AM up 135 days, 13:50, 17 users, load averages: 0.42, 0.28, 0.25
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