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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2016 17:46:38 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrzej Tobola <ato@iem.pw.edu.pl>
Cc:        "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: suggested patch for bsd.ports.mk
Message-ID:  <d57b967c-7712-d6ef-e9cf-4f1238e97142@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160513072607.GB17437@volt.iem.pw.edu.pl>
References:  <d857274b-908a-4873-1f81-ea99cb1fdbba@freebsd.org> <20160513072607.GB17437@volt.iem.pw.edu.pl>

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On 13/05/2016 3:26 PM, Andrzej Tobola wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:11:47AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> This patch is pretty self explanatory.
>>
>> it allows us to keep patches for various ports separately in a sparse
>> hierarchy while not having to write to the ports tree itself.
>>
>> In case the list scrubs hte text attachment (diff) here's the
>> description part of the diff.
> >From a long time I am using unionfs - it simpler and allows also
> to modyfy/mask all port files - e.g:
>
>    mount -t nullfs -o ro  /pub/FreeBSD/SVN/ports /usr/ports
>    mount -t unionfs -o ro /usr/local/ports       /usr/ports
>
> -a
>
that is cool but it is not really suitable for use in a company's 
build farm.





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