Merging several branches with ports tree

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Andrzej Tobola wrote:

> I do not understand exactly ...
> but from a few years  I am using unionfs to place my mods of ports
> tree over the original:
>
>   /ftp/pub/BSD/FreeBSD/GIT/ports    2,1T    1,6T    553G
> 74%    /usr/ports <above>:/usr/local/ports          2,2T    2,2T
> 18G    99%    /usr/ports
> 
>   % mount | grep ports
>   /ftp/pub/BSD/FreeBSD/GIT/ports on /usr/ports (nullfs, read-only)
>   <above>:/usr/local/ports on /usr/ports (unionfs, read-only)

That's an interesting approach and nice idea.
My aim is to have a separate category for the modded ports, because
a) They're mostly not in the tree anyway and,
b) I need a way to keep track of modded ports for update failure.

In case there are others who find my explanation a bit incomprehensible:
* I download each repo/tree (git/svn) into its own folder.
* I then want to overlay each tree into /usr/ports, starting with ports,
gnome3, linux-c6 and finally my-port-collection
* When I update base ports tree, and try to place the latest overlay into
/usr/ports, the "rsync -au" command results in a ports tree with unforseen
errors. I need to correct this.
* I prefer to have my ports collection under a separate category and I need
to correct the script that injects categories into /usr/ports/Makefile &
Mk/bsd.ports.mk. Sending the folder for sub-category is of course trivial
with rsync.

Thanks for the idea!



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