Clarification about redports.org

[Chris Rees]

On 9 July 2012 19:19, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just created an account at redports.org. While reading the user
> guide, I found the following paragraph:
>
> "Notice: All ports in your repository replace the complete directory
> of the official ports whenever you build a port."
>
> I don't know if I understood correctly. Does it _really_ mean the
> directory of the official ports? The one users update for instance
> executing "freebsd-update fetch udpate"?

No.  What it means is that *when you test the tree* the ports tree is
mounted, and then your changes are applied to it (like a unionfs).

This means that if you've modified a port that the tested port depends
on, that one will also be tested.

For example:

I use my redports account and commit some changes to net-p2p/transmission-cli

I want to test my changes to the slaves too, so I queue some builds
for net-p2p/transmission-daemon.

These use the modified transmission-cli.

Chris