Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:50:24 -0800 From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local ports [Was: Re: mail/postfix and mail/postfix-current missing on www.freebsd.org ports section] Message-ID: <54b0f127-3390-5219-827d-31477c299124@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <A3BCF0B9-20F7-4C8D-AD53-1A78936A9AC1@freebsd.org> References: <814827EE-433E-4D6E-B0D4-E91B7AD8B57C@ellael.org> <49d8244d-8824-f112-9792-4c294d8a6ddc@bluerosetech.com> <25r0p877-99oq-or7o-rn51-50p3113r51s9@mx.roble.com> <a899e653-02b8-f2c2-bb19-b2476baf83b1@bluerosetech.com> <A3BCF0B9-20F7-4C8D-AD53-1A78936A9AC1@freebsd.org>
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On 2021-12-27 9:29, Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote: > That’s one way of doing it but preferred way is a bit different as the upstream is modified and there might be merge conflicts while updating the tree. You have to use poudriere-devel and the overlay feature. So let’s say that I have a private repos of ports in github. Adding /local/* to .git/info/exclude avoids the presence of /local causing merge conflicts. As previously stated, overlays have race conditions with Ports features, making them unusable if an overlaid port has a complex Makefile.
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