Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:22:31 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> To: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Michael Schnell <s-tlk@s-tlk.org> Subject: Re: Get ports tree of the current pkgng repository Message-ID: <20120817052231.e8d319c9.bsd-unix@embarqmail.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, 17 Aug 2012 06:25:36 +0300 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? I asked this same question about syncronizing the ports tree with CVS a long time ago. At the time it seemed that manual tweaking was done to get the packages built so there was no actual tree that matched the package repository. I hope this is no longer the case since mixing ports and packages is likely to cause some mismatch eventually if there is no syncronization. I quit using packages because of this over ten years ago. I'd like to see a way to easily be able to mix building ports and using packages without problems. Randy
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