From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 14:48:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1968216A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A169C43D2F for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4OLlZIX015076; Mon, 24 May 2004 17:47:35 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20040524193815.21b18d80@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:47:34 -0400 To: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Third "RFC" on on pkg-data ideas for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:48:15 -0000 At 3:46 PM -0400 5/24/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 7:38 PM +0200 5/24/04, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> >>ATM you can checkout one (new/updated) port from cvs into >>any non-"ports/" directory and it will work just fine >>(depending on the dependencies of the port). I don't see >>how this is possible with [the above] approach. > >..., I was assuming >that the end-user would still be working in a copy of the >entire ports-collection, so I was just going to download >into ports/Packages. Maybe that isn't the right idea. Actually, the solution is probably pretty simple. Just create a distfiles/Patches directory, and download any missing "ports-collection patches" into that directory, if we can't find them in ports/Patches... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu