[nycbug-talk] creating "local" ports

[Brian A. Seklecki]

In Pkgsrc we have pkgsrc-wip which essential provide the mechanism you're 
looking for.

The problem becomes modifications to existing ports where reanaming the 
PKGNAME will essentially break dependencies and portupgrade logic.

On the other than -- with NetBSD, and vanilla CVS for updates, we don't 
have to worry about CVSUp blow about localizations.

~BAS

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Top post alert...
>
> Brought over to -ports list:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006-November/036508.html
>
> (screwed up the subject, was editing/forwarding)
>
> I'm kind of surprised there isn't a mechanism to easily manage a local
> ports category.  I've been getting pretty compulsive about trying to keep
> everything I can in ports so I have a clear picture of what's installed on
> each box.
>
> Charles
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Sujit Karataparambil wrote:
>
>>> I'd like to copy these into some sort of local ports directory, but that
>>> raises
>>> a few questions:
>>>
>>> -Is there an accepted location for this branch, ie: /usr/ports/local that
>>> will
>>> not get blown away on a cvsup or portsnap update?
>>
>>
>> There is an LocalBase Port Location in FreeBSD.
>>
>> -How does one handle packages that depend on say, qmail, but I now want to
>>> depend on local-qmail?  I know portupgrade can be tought this by setting
>>> an
>>> alternate pkgdep, but is there any clever way of doing this so that when
>>> you're
>>> not using portupgrade the deps are adjusted?
>>
>>
>> Hope this might Help.
>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/25/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
>>
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