"poudriere testport" to download binary depends

[John Kennedy]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 01:59:17PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 21/10/2019 13:31, Sergei Vyshenski wrote:
> > Is it possible to instruct "poudriere testport" such
> > that it downloads depends (in a form of binary packages) from the 
> > central repository,
> > and actually tests only the port in question?
> 
> Currently, no this is not available.  Using another repo to seed the 
> repo you're building test packages in is something that has been talked 
> about, but not implemented yet.  I get the feeling that it's trickier 
> than it at first seems.

  For my current one-offs, I pull down ports via git, have a local branch
where my changes are (refreshing by merging from "master" in my case), and
then have poudriere base ports off my branch.