Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:27:41 +0300 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Michael Schnell <s-tlk@s-tlk.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Get ports tree of the current pkgng repository Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSec2Uu87Aqnn2iXUOzWgh0GCqb7pD7cwsL6KnOY9YJ2Aw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B7WWSdHVC=gx3RnzpkQR4cd9T3r=75HzVAE3osG4dsmGiHcdw@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208162138370.7693@priv.s-tlk.org> <CA%2B7WWSdHVC=gx3RnzpkQR4cd9T3r=75HzVAE3osG4dsmGiHcdw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Michael Schnell <s-tlk@s-tlk.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> I don't know if this came up already, but not as far as I know. So, I >> was thinking it would be nice to add a mechanism to pkgng, which enables >> the user to get the ports tree corresponding to the current repository. >> >> At least I've the problem that I really like the idea of the pkgng >> system, but I need a few custom build packages. For instance rawtherapee >> is not working for me with OpenMP, so I have to disable it to get it >> working, or I made some patches for openbox, which of course then needs >> to be compiled. In order to get not in conflict with a more recent >> ports tree the exact version of the repository build would be nice. >> >> At the moment I can think of two ways to implement it. The easiest way >> would be to add the ports tree as a packages into the repository. A more >> complicated thing is to add a mechanism to portsnap synchronised with >> the pkgng system to direct fetch it, or at least a revision number of >> the current repo, so you can check it out of the subversion. >> >> How do you guys feel about this? >> >> >> Greetings >> Michael >> > > Why not just include the SVN revision of the ports tree that was used > to create the packages in the package metadata? > > -Kimmo And of course in the repository metadata as you proposed, sorry not enough coffee yet :P -Kimmo
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