Hi, > 3. Someone deleted port I like to use / I want my personal ports tree: > FreeBSD: I wish :/ > Gentoo: overlays works well.
Now I'm really curios what magic device gentoo has. Once thing I most appreciate about FreeBSD is how flexible it is in precisely this manner. * if some port is removed or I just want an old version of some port I just use cvs sticky tags. That's the nice thing about having a repository with full history and even having it mirrored on my own hard disk[1]. * Of course, no one prevents me from installing my own ports. And this fits amazingly well, as dependencies are defined semantically (a certain library/binary/... has to be installed---not a particular port) * But, most importantly, /etc/make.conf is the device for proper overlays, that is, I have a way to modify a port without forking it. And I think that this is really nice that I can go my own way here while still benefiting from the good work of the maintainer. And I never had anything I wanted that I couldn't achieve by adding something like .if !empty(.CURDIR:M*/ports/foo/bar*) CFLAGS += ... EXTRA_PATCHES += /wherever/I/store/my/personal/patches.diff post-extract: # do something... pst-configure: # do something... post-patch: # do something ... pre-install: # do something... # and so on .endif to my /etc/make.conf. Could you please elaborate, which additional features gentoo's overlay system brings on top of that? Best regards, Klaus [1] I use CTM for that, but there is more than one way to do it. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"