[Bug 223499] [change request] Add wip to VALID_GATEGORIES for work-in-progress ports

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Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to Jason Bacon from comment #0)
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> I routinely deploy work-in-progress ports on numerous servers for beta
> testing before committing them.  These are typically for scientific programs
> that I am not qualified to test myself, so I rely on researchers to
> quality-check the installations.
> 
> To facilitate this, I maintain a separate repository, which I check out to
> /usr/ports/wip, following the example of pkgsrc-wip.
> 
> Ports checks require that the first entry in CATEGORIES match the parent
> directory.  Adding wip here results in an invalid category error.
> 
> I can patch it in as necessary, but would like to make the change permanent
> so that this is unnecessary and problems can be avoided.
> 
> There are a few other contributors to my wip collection at this point and
> I'm hoping to see the system grow, as pkgsrc-wip has proven to be a popular
> and useful model to follow.

Maybe I don't fully understand you're need(s)/request.
But won't Mk/bsd.local.mk , and Makefile.local give you that capability?

--Chris

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