From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 18:33:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2558C16A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:33:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from centrmmtao06.cox.net (centrmmtao06.cox.net [70.168.83.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9C543D46 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:33:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by centrmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060302183256.LFZS4002.centrmmtao06.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:32:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:34:22 -0600 To: "Vivek Khera" References: From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.52 (Linux, build 1631) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best practices for private ports? 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: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:33:05 -0000 On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:24:48 -0600, Vivek Khera wrote: > I have a few meta-ports I use to configure my base systems. eg, I have > a "kci-dbserver" port that just has runtime requirements for postgres, > slony, mysql, and nullmailer. > > Right now I made a subdirectory in ports called local to put them in, > but portsnap likes to delete it regularly :-( These are very specific > to my server configurations so don't really make sense for inclusion in > the main ports tree. > > What is the preferred location/mechanism for having local ports? > Ideally I'd like it to integrate with portupgrade which looks only in > /usr/ports/* for the port files. Use CVSup instead portsnap or copy marcusmerge.sh[1] with some tweak or write your own script something similar to marcusmerge.sh that fit your need. That's all I can think of. [1] http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portstools/ Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org