Own ports organization

Milan Knizek knizek at volny.cz
Thu Apr 5 17:56:41 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 04 of April 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> > Milan Knizek wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> are there any recommendation how to organize own ports?
> >>
> >
> > For what it's worth, if you use cvsup then you can store your own ports
> > safely under /usr/ports.  You can also store extra files (like extra
> > patches, for example), though I'm not sure what would happen if that
> > port got deleted.  Probably just your patch would remain.
> >
>
> There's already support in the tree for adding local ports, or even
> entire local categories of ports.
>
> Simply create /usr/ports/Makefile.local containing eg:
>
>     SUBDIR += my-ports
>
> and make /usr/ports/my-ports a link to your directory of local ports.
>

Thank you for the info.

Best regards,
Milan


-- 
Milan Knížek
http://milan-knizek.net/
e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list