Ports test system setup

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Sun Jun 12 10:19:15 UTC 2016


Hi!

> OK, I installed 11-a2 and poudriere. Now I'm running testport, however I 
> have a question - poudriere wiki describes situation where developer 
> patches port and runs it to test. This looks like final precaution 
> before commit to port tree.
> 
> What if I don't know yet what to patch, but need to experiment a little? 
> I want 'make extract', then patch by hand, then try to compile. Is it 
> possible?

I do this kind of testing in the 11 environment ('loaded with other ports')
and only if it builds there, I copy the patched port to the poudriere tree
and run the testbuilds there.

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