From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 10:04:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAD7106564A for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aehlig@linta.de) Received: from linta.de (isilmar-3.linta.de [188.40.101.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9F68FC14 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4204 invoked by uid 10); 16 Sep 2011 10:04:19 -0000 Received: from kta1c10 by isilmar.linta.de with BSMTP; 16 Sep 2011 10:04:19 -0000 Received: by kta1c10.sesnet.soton.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D9A343981D; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:04:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:04:10 +0100 From: "Klaus T. Aehlig" To: ??ukasz W??sikowski Message-ID: <20110916100410.GA49494@kta1c10.sesnet.soton.ac.uk> References: <20110912230943.GD33455@guilt.hydra> <4E6E99BC.4050909@missouri.edu> <1315905051.1747.208.camel@xenon> <4E6F8A50.9060205@gmx.de> <1315942042.1747.258.camel@xenon> <4E6FD71D.9010207@gmx.de> <20110914181553.f6d31b0f.cjr@cruwe.de> <4E722F3F.3030606@wasikowski.net> <20110916062452.GA57167@curry.linta.de> <4E731A92.1050700@wasikowski.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E731A92.1050700@wasikowski.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: overlays X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:04:21 -0000 > Simplicity. [...] I've got ca. 70 Gentoo servers and I want my own > portage overlay. Thank you very much for that explanation! I was thinking in a different direction, as the number of machines I have is quite limited, each with very specific needs. As long as it is only about adding new ports, I would probably have /usr/ports/local a checkout of my personal repository with the rest of /usr/ports a checkout of the official repository (cvs allows this and cvs update will tacitly update each directory form the repository it belongs). But as I said, I have no practical experience with the same overlay on a bulk of machines. My thought was in the direction of tweaking a single machine to its very specific needs while keeping maintenance of the tweaked machine simple. So thanks for clarifying this and best regards, Klaus