From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat May 14 03:25:25 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2DFB3ACCD for ; Sat, 14 May 2016 03:25:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B239127A for ; Sat, 14 May 2016 03:25:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 46AE3B3ACCC; Sat, 14 May 2016 03:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46519B3ACCB for ; Sat, 14 May 2016 03:25:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 289CA1279 for ; Sat, 14 May 2016 03:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-225-151.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.225.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u4E3PEjP045504 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 20:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: suggested patch for bsd.ports.mk To: "ports@FreeBSD.org" References: From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <3ce42b02-ac65-0322-b66d-5e5d198c9877@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 11:25:08 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 03:25:25 -0000 On 13/05/2016 12:11 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: so who or what decides if I can put this in? As a long term committer from before there were ports, do I have access to it? do I need to get a ports mentor? (seems likely and would make sense).. do I apply somewhere? Or should I look for soemone in ports to do it for me? > This patch is pretty self explanatory. > > it allows us to keep patches for various ports separately in a > sparse hierarchy while not having to write to the ports tree itself. > > In case the list scrubs hte text attachment (diff) here's the > description part of the diff. > > >==== //depot/bugatti/FreeBSD-ports-PZ/10.1/Mk/bsd.port.mk#2 (text) > ==== > > @@ -791,6 +791,11 @@ > # The patches specified by this variable will be > # applied after the normal distribution patches but > # before those in ${PATCHDIR}. > +# 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. > # PATCH_WRKSRC - Directory to apply patches in. > # Default: ${WRKSRC} > # > > If anyone thinks this is a good idea, I'd like it to go in as we > have to maintain it.. > I could commit it myself but haven't had my ports wings awarded yet.. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"