Clarification about redports.org

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

It's much clearer now.

Thanks!

>
> Chris