Re: git: "overlay" of own remote-branch on official freebsd-ports repo

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:01:56 +0000
Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 05:31:48PM +0200, FreeBSD User wrote:
> > I'd like to ask how FreeBSD developers and maintainers do the trick. If
> > there is an official cookbook fpr maintainers (I haven't found it yet ...),
> > please be so kind and refer to it. Any advice is welcome.  
> 
> If you only want to add extra ports, I'd recommend maintaining a
> separate repo for use with the ports collection's under-documented
> overlay feature.  This avoids the need to rebase or merge your trees.
> 
> You create the overlay in poudriere with something like:
> 
> poudriere ports -c -p cheri-ports-overlay -U
> https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheri-ports-overlay.git -m git -B main
> 
> You then use it by adding -O cheri-ports-overlay to your other poudriere
> commands like poudriere bulk.
> 
> Note that you may need to install poudriere-devel or install it by hand
> to get this feature.
> 
> -- Brooks

Hello,

that sounds very good and usefull.

Thank you very much

Kind regards,

Oliver