Time for newvers

[Matthew Dillon]

    I have a solution to propose, and that is for us to begin our
    own ports tree which we call /usr/dports.  The FreeBSD ports
    tree would still reside in /usr/ports.

    We would modify /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk to detect when a port is
    built from the FreeBSD ports tree and if so it will check to see 
    if an 'override' exists in our /usr/dports tree, and redirect the
    build to the new tree if so.

    This would be strictly temporary, but this way we can modify ports
    piecemeal without having to constantly sync with FreeBSD.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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:-On [20030906 23:42], David Rhodus (drhodus at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
:>I'm not sure that's exactly the right approach to take. The FreeBSD
:>ports tree is a very dynamic item, as there is a large number of people
:>tracking the changes of the packages.
:
:You can still checkout a ports tree of FreeBSD next to it if you'd like.
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:>Along with location changes of the packages on the internet is a very,
:>very time consuming process. We will need to overlay the FreeBSD ports
:>system with our own, at least until interest grows. Without doing that
:>the tree will become quickly stale.
:
:I can understand that concern too though.
:
:>With a few hours one could develop a simple set of shell scripts to
:>harvest this information from the Makefile and distinfo files.  Hence
:>plugging the file location and any other BSD specifics from the files
:>dir that will be need to build the package into our ports/packaging
:>system.
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:I hope it's a simple as it is.  There's also a reason to start working
:on our own ports/applications, since the gnats process in FreeBSD can
:take quite a long time before changes get put through, even with
:attached patches.
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