From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 26 14:53:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCE316A403 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDB213C480 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00E2EBC78; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:53:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:53:14 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Vivek Khera Message-Id: <20070426105314.7dd55052.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4FEBCC0A-FBF5-4A30-83D0-EFF0B60450CA@khera.org> References: <20070425132239.64ebbb14.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4FEBCC0A-FBF5-4A30-83D0-EFF0B60450CA@khera.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a local branch of the ports tree 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: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:53:15 -0000 In response to Vivek Khera : > > On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > My thought is to make /usr/ports/private (or similar) and teach cvsup > > not to blow it away. Then I just need to make sure that portupgrade > > and other tools see it. > > > > Does anyone have a HOWTO or list of steps to get this going? I know > > this has been discussed before but I can't find any reference to it > > now. > > I use /usr/port/local and name all the ports "kci-XXX" for whatever > port we have. mostly these are pseudo ports which pull in all the > dependencies for our various server needs. (I'll probably post this > to my website sometime...) Wow, that's pretty damn detailed. If you have trouble getting it ready for web publication, let me know and I'll maybe jump in and help out. This is great stuff. [snip] -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com