make.conf options and poudriere

Victor Sudakov sudakov+freebsd at sibptus.tomsk.ru
Sun Jan 22 05:57:24 UTC 2017


Joe Nosay wrote:
> >
> > Are you suggesting some alternative to poudriere? Of course I can
> > create a dedicated ports tree in poudriere, edit the Makefile manually
> > and never update that special tree. But isn't it something of an overkill
> > if I just want to protect my precious changes from being overwritten
> > by the next ports tree update?

> Keep the untouched file within the standard /usr/ports directory and build
> the edited file in the jail. Whatever differences there are, you will be
> able to share with the mailing list.

Which means the edited package will not make it into one of the
repositories I publish via poudriere for my hosts? This would be an inconvenience.

I think I'd better go with the ".if ${.CURDIR.....}"  clause in make.conf.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
AS43859


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