Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 04:47:19 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 223499] [change request] Add wip to VALID_GATEGORIES for work-in-progress ports Message-ID: <bug-223499-13-DlMs8fylYU@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-223499-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-223499-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D223499 Chris Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |portmaster@bsdforge.com --- Comment #2 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> --- (In reply to Jason Bacon from comment #0) > Created attachment 187827 [details] > Unified diff >=20 > I routinely deploy work-in-progress ports on numerous servers for beta > testing before committing them. These are typically for scientific progr= ams > that I am not qualified to test myself, so I rely on researchers to > quality-check the installations. >=20 > To facilitate this, I maintain a separate repository, which I check out to > /usr/ports/wip, following the example of pkgsrc-wip. >=20 > Ports checks require that the first entry in CATEGORIES match the parent > directory. Adding wip here results in an invalid category error. >=20 > I can patch it in as necessary, but would like to make the change permane= nt > so that this is unnecessary and problems can be avoided. >=20 > There are a few other contributors to my wip collection at this point and > I'm hoping to see the system grow, as pkgsrc-wip has proven to be a popul= ar > and useful model to follow. Maybe I don't fully understand you're need(s)/request. But won't Mk/bsd.local.mk , and Makefile.local give you that capability? --Chris --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.=
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