Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 14:26:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r513485 - head Message-ID: <201910011426.x91EQ4JT022234@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bapt Date: Tue Oct 1 14:26:03 2019 New Revision: 513485 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/513485 Log: Document the support of overlays in CHANGES Reported by: many Modified: head/CHANGES Modified: head/CHANGES ============================================================================== --- head/CHANGES Tue Oct 1 14:20:25 2019 (r513484) +++ head/CHANGES Tue Oct 1 14:26:03 2019 (r513485) @@ -16,6 +16,23 @@ AUTHOR: madpilot@FreeBSD.org USES=xfce now defaults to gtk3, so for ported applications requiring GTK2 XFCE support USES=xfce:gtk2 should be used. +20190903: +AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org + + The ports tree now supports overlays + + overlays are a way to help users to integrate their own ports tree + with the official ports tree without having to maintain clone of the + official tree and remerge on regular basis. + + The ports tree will lookup in the overlays (in the order the are listed in + OVERLAY variable) for the dependencies and the USES. It will use the first + found. + + in order to use it the user have to declare his overlays that way in their + make.conf: + OVERLAYS= overlay1 overlay2 overlay3 + 20181225: AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org
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