suggested patch for bsd.ports.mk

[Julian Elischer]

On 3/01/2017 6:44 PM, Vlad K. wrote:
> On 2017-01-03 11:31, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Sometime ago I proposed the following change.
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>> I got several "yes please" from members of the public,
>> but no actionable response from members of the ports group
>> So I am asking again.
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> I haven't checked the code in detail for correctness, but 
> conceptually this is nice. I wanted to propose something like this 
> last year, inspired by Gentoo's ability to just drop a patch in a 
> directory in /etc which would be picked up automatically by portage.
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> However, I was convinced that it's unnecessary work because any 
> custom patches can be added directly to the /files/ directory of the 
> port and if using svn'd ports tree, it's easy to track and even push 
> upstream.
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> But seeing that someone else now thinks this is good too, I'd like 
> to cast my vote again for this. Yes, it's easy to do it with svn, 
> but with something like this it should be possible to add an ability 
> for Poudriere (and Synth?) to track multiple patches for multiple 
> sets without the need to "pollute" the ports tree. Why? A/B testing, 
> different arches - different patches, etc....
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> So here: YES PLEASE.
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> Julian, did you put it up for comments on reviews.freebsd.org?
no I did not. I'm not sure how I would do that
clicking on the 'diff' button on the bug attachment gives  a nice view 
of the patch.


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