Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:22:54 -0700 From: "Ian A. Tegebo" <yontege@rescomp.berkeley.edu> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintaining Site Specific Ports Message-ID: <20060419232254.GE21507@rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060420005925.2f409d18@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <20060419213600.GD21507@rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20060420005925.2f409d18@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:59:25AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:36:00 -0700 > "Ian A. Tegebo" <yontege@rescomp.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > > I'm interested in maintaining a set of ports that install site specific > > files. I was hoping to set something up like Gentoo's Portage Overlay: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_chap2 > > > > A coworker simply tried putting a custom port in > > /usr/ports/OURSITE/ourport but couldn't get indexing to work; does > > anyone have any experience doing something like this? I'm looking at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for some more clues. > You need to add OURSITE to VALID_CATEGORIES, Do you mean do: VALID_CATEGORIES+= OURSITE in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk? > OURSITE to SUBDIR in ports/Makefile and > ourport to SUBDIR in ports/OURSITE/Makefile The first part is clear but after looking in some example ports I couldn't find exactly what SUBDIR in ports/OURSITE/Makefile would do. I did come across /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/addport and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html so it seems I have some playing around to do. -- ian
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