From nobody Wed Oct 13 06:16:47 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8392717F4137 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 06:17:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@walstatt-de.de) Received: from smtp6.goneo.de (smtp6.goneo.de [85.220.129.31]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4HTj402fYjz3FHF; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 06:17:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@walstatt-de.de) Received: from hub1.goneo.de (hub1.goneo.de [IPv6:2001:1640:5::8:52]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp6.goneo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CCAF10A32EF; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:16:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hub1.goneo.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub1.goneo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F33110B4FAD; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from freyja (p5de887d0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.232.135.208]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by hub1.goneo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E31EA10A75E3; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:16:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:16:47 +0200 From: FreeBSD User To: Brooks Davis Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Subject: Re: git: "overlay" of own remote-branch on official freebsd-ports repo Message-ID: <20211013081647.5e1d857e@freyja> In-Reply-To: <20211012180156.GA90843@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20211012173148.1d2f138c@hermann.fritz.box> <20211012180156.GA90843@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-UID: 355b4c X-Rspamd-UID: 98742e X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4HTj402fYjz3FHF X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:01:56 +0000 Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 05:31:48PM +0200, FreeBSD User wrote: > > I'd like to ask how FreeBSD developers and maintainers do the trick. If > > there is an official cookbook fpr maintainers (I haven't found it yet ...), > > please be so kind and refer to it. Any advice is welcome. > > If you only want to add extra ports, I'd recommend maintaining a > separate repo for use with the ports collection's under-documented > overlay feature. This avoids the need to rebase or merge your trees. > > You create the overlay in poudriere with something like: > > poudriere ports -c -p cheri-ports-overlay -U > https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheri-ports-overlay.git -m git -B main > > You then use it by adding -O cheri-ports-overlay to your other poudriere > commands like poudriere bulk. > > Note that you may need to install poudriere-devel or install it by hand > to get this feature. > > -- Brooks Hello, that sounds very good and usefull. Thank you very much Kind regards, Oliver