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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2019 17:51:28 +0200
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r510950 - in head/Mk: . Scripts
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 16:37, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Author: bapt
> Date: Tue Sep  3 14:36:00 2019
> New Revision: 510950
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/510950
>
> Log:
>   Add support for overlays
>
>   overlays are a way to help users to integrate their own ports tree
>   with the official ports tree without having to maintain clone of the
>   official tree and remerge on regular basis.
>
>   The ports tree will lookup in the overlays (in the order the are listed
> in
>   OVERLAY variable) for the dependencies and the USES. It will use the
> first
>   found.
>
>   in order to use it the user have to declare his overlays that way in
> their
>   make.conf:
>   OVERLAYS= overlay1 overlay2 overlay3
>
>   Reviewed by:  manu
>   Approved by:  swills
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21468


Awesome work! Thanks a lot! I'll make use of it for sure.



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