From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 02:41:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7240E16A403 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=qbrDMQ=JO=vvelox.net=v.velox@yourhostingaccount.com) Received: from mailout03.yourhostingaccount.com (mailout03.yourhostingaccount.com [65.254.254.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FC313C457 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=qbrDMQ=JO=vvelox.net=v.velox@yourhostingaccount.com) Received: from mailscan56.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.15.56] helo=mailscan56.yourhostingaccount.com) by mailout03.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim) id 1HbSXO-0006tt-D8 for ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:26:22 -0400 Received: from authsmtp09.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.18.9] ident=exim) by mailscan56.yourhostingaccount.com with spamscanlookuphost (Exim) id 1HbSXO-00089X-Bt for ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:26:22 -0400 Received: from authsmtp09.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.18.9] helo=authsmtp09.yourhostingaccount.com) by mailscan56.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim) id 1HbSXN-00089J-NB; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:26:21 -0400 Received: from cpe-65-185-51-114.columbus.res.rr.com ([65.185.51.114] helo=vixen42) by authsmtp09.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtpa (Exim) id 1HbSXN-0007Dr-HT; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:26:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:29:19 -0400 From: Vulpes Velox To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20070410222919.1c0ca8c7@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <20070411021504.GH57174@tcbug.org> References: <20070410021329.5f6865f8@vixen42> <20070411021504.GH57174@tcbug.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EN-UserInfo: 0d1ca1697cdb7a831d4877828571b7ab:1570f0de6936c69fef9e164fffc541bc X-EN-AuthUser: vvelox2 Sender: Vulpes Velox X-EN-OrigIP: 65.185.51.114 X-EN-OrigHost: cpe-65-185-51-114.columbus.res.rr.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:41:34 -0000 On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:15:04 -0500 Josh Paetzel wrote: > Vulpes Velox wrote: > > I was just wondering what any one else thought of the idea of > > adding a local directory to the ports tree and to the .cvsignore. > > This would be a directory for users to put local custom ports. > > There's nothing to stop you from creating /usr/ports/local right > now and just using it. You don't need a .cvsignore if you are > using cvsup/csup, they ignore files that aren't in the cvs repo > anyways. Of course if you are using portsnap that might be a > different story, not sure how it handles updates... I know. :)