On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:01:56 +0000 Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 05:31:48PM +0200, FreeBSD User wrote: > > I'd like to ask how FreeBSD developers and maintainers do the trick. If > > there is an official cookbook fpr maintainers (I haven't found it yet ...), > > please be so kind and refer to it. Any advice is welcome. > > If you only want to add extra ports, I'd recommend maintaining a > separate repo for use with the ports collection's under-documented > overlay feature. This avoids the need to rebase or merge your trees. > > You create the overlay in poudriere with something like: > > poudriere ports -c -p cheri-ports-overlay -U > https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheri-ports-overlay.git -m git -B main > > You then use it by adding -O cheri-ports-overlay to your other poudriere > commands like poudriere bulk. > > Note that you may need to install poudriere-devel or install it by hand > to get this feature. > > -- Brooks Hello, that sounds very good and usefull. Thank you very much Kind regards, Oliver
