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Date:      Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:04:10 +0100
From:      "Klaus T. Aehlig" <aehlig@linta.de>
To:        ??ukasz W??sikowski <lukasz@wasikowski.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: overlays
Message-ID:  <20110916100410.GA49494@kta1c10.sesnet.soton.ac.uk>
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> 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




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