From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 22:25:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6FD1065675 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:25:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from doug-optiplex.ka9q.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA94315001C; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D7409CB.1040706@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:25:15 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110304 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grzegorz Blach References: <4D73D464.3070806@roorback.net> In-Reply-To: <4D73D464.3070806@roorback.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, "b. f." , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs fresh Blood! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:25:16 -0000 On 03/06/2011 10:37, Grzegorz Blach wrote: > On 03/06/2011 18:35, b. f. wrote: >>> I read last post Martin Wilke's blog called "FreeBSD needs fresh Blood!" >>> >>> First of all, I think it's difficult to testing ports No argument there, it can be hard work. >>> I'm using testing release of VirtualBox, >>> but for build this port I must download patches, >>> apply its on my own tree and merge its with official ports >>> using portshaker. You could also maintain completely separate trees, or subtrees with CVS. >>> It's possible to build testing ports outside tree, >>> but I must build every port separately, since `Make` don't known how to >>> track dependencies. Setting PORTSDIR for your builds may help. Read ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for more information about that. >> There is always going to be some added work involved in testing. Have >> you considered using multiple trees, if you have sufficient disk >> space? Or using a version control system? > > > Multiple trees don't help me a lot, portmaster became fools. Not sure what you mean by that, but portmaster respects PORTSDIR as well. > There is address for repository, but I still need merging trees > and rebuild index for portmaster. portmaster does not require the INDEX unless you tell it to. If you have a ports tree to operate against portmaster doesn't need the INDEX at all. hope this helps, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/