Re: Local ports [Was: Re: mail/postfix and mail/postfix-current missing on www.freebsd.org ports section]

In reply to: Muhammad Moinur Rahman : "Re: Local ports [Was: Re: mail/postfix and mail/postfix-current missing on www.freebsd.org ports section]"
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From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd_at_bluerosetech.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 17:50:24 UTC

On 2021-12-27 9:29, Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote:
> That’s one way of doing it but preferred way is a bit different as the upstream is modified and there might be merge conflicts while updating the tree. You have to use poudriere-devel and the overlay feature. So let’s say that I have a private repos of ports in github.

Adding /local/* to .git/info/exclude avoids the presence of /local 
causing merge conflicts.

As previously stated, overlays have race conditions with Ports features, 
making them unusable if an overlaid port has a complex Makefile.