Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:13:50 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports (fwd) Message-ID: <454BB10E.4020900@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0611031519500.4567@dyn-160-39-250-49.dyn.columbia.edu> References: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0611031519500.4567@dyn-160-39-250-49.dyn.columbia.edu>
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Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Is there a way to create a "local" category? ie: /usr/ports/LOCAL
Create /usr/ports/Makefile.local containing:
SUBDIR+=3D LOCAL
> -By default cvsup and (I assume portsnap) would nuke anything in
> /usr/ports that was not part of the main ports tree. How can this be
> dealt with in a way that none of the current/future port update
> methods will not clobber our local tree?
cvsup won't nuke a file that it knows nothing about. ie. it only nukes
files that have history in CVS. portsnap I believe is less friendly
to local additions.
A simple method of dealing with this is to keep your LOCAL tree in an
entirely separate filesystem and write yourself a tiny little script
to generate symlinks under /usr/ports.
> -How does one handle packages that depend on say, qmail, but I now
> want to depend on local-qmail? I know portupgrade can be tought this
> by setting an alternate pkgdep, but is there any clever way of doing
> this so that when you're not using portupgrade the deps are adjusted?
That's a generic problem with ports -- instead of registering a
dependency on the package that provided the file that satisfied the
test specified by the FOO_DEPENDS variable in the port Makefile, the
dependency is registered on the default package to install to resolve
the dependency as shown in the second half of the FOO_DEPENDS line.
As far as I know portupgrade is the only software with the alt-pkgdep
functionality available: it isn't available in the basic ports per-se,
although a number of popular core ports can specify alternate
dependencies where support for doing that has been specifically
written into the various Makefiles involved. No idea if either portmaster=
or portmanager have any similar alternate dependency functionality though=
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Cheers,
Matthew
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