best way to maintain local ports tree changes

Mel Pilgrim list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Tue Nov 7 16:52:08 UTC 2017


On 11/07/2017 07:54, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> What is the best way to maintain local ports tree changes?
> 
> I am building packages in poudriere, 4 different sets for 2 archs (8 
> sets in total).
> 
> I have some local ports and some changes to official ports. Now we are 
> planing to do some small changes in ports/Mk too.
> So what is the best way to get ports tree in sync with official ports 
> tree but keep our local changes without a need to apply patches manually 
> over and over?
> 
> What are you guys using for this scenario?

Purely local ports are in a "local" subdir.  Changes to official ports 
that can go upstream do, otherwise I clone the skeleton into local and 
use that.


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