On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Michael Schnell <s-...@s-tlk.org> wrote: > Hi, > I don't know if this came up already, but not as far as I know. So, I > was thinking it would be nice to add a mechanism to pkgng, which enables > the user to get the ports tree corresponding to the current repository. > > At least I've the problem that I really like the idea of the pkgng > system, but I need a few custom build packages. For instance rawtherapee > is not working for me with OpenMP, so I have to disable it to get it > working, or I made some patches for openbox, which of course then needs > to be compiled. In order to get not in conflict with a more recent > ports tree the exact version of the repository build would be nice. > > At the moment I can think of two ways to implement it. The easiest way > would be to add the ports tree as a packages into the repository. A more > complicated thing is to add a mechanism to portsnap synchronised with > the pkgng system to direct fetch it, or at least a revision number of > the current repo, so you can check it out of the subversion. > > How do you guys feel about this? > > > Greetings > Michael >
Why not just include the SVN revision of the ports tree that was used to create the packages in the package metadata? -Kimmo _______________________________________________ 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"
