FreeBSD needs fresh Blood!

[Grzegorz Blach]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 23:25, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 03/06/2011 10:37, Grzegorz Blach wrote:
>>
>> On 03/06/2011 18:35, b. f. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I read last post Martin Wilke's blog called "FreeBSD needs fresh Blood!"
>>>>
>>>> First of all, I think it's difficult to testing ports
>
> No argument there, it can be hard work.
>
>>>> I'm using testing release of VirtualBox,
>>>> but for build this port I must download patches,
>>>> apply its on my own tree and merge its with official ports
>>>> using portshaker.
>
> You could also maintain completely separate trees, or subtrees with CVS.
>
>>>> It's possible to build testing ports outside tree,
>>>> but I must build every port separately, since `Make` don't known how to
>>>> track dependencies.
>
> Setting PORTSDIR for your builds may help. Read ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for
> more information about that.
>
>>> There is always going to be some added work involved in testing.  Have
>>> you considered using multiple trees, if you have sufficient disk
>>> space? Or using a version control system?
>>
>>
>> Multiple trees don't help me a lot, portmaster became fools.
>
> Not sure what you mean by that, but portmaster respects PORTSDIR as well.
>
>> There is address for repository, but I still need merging trees
>> and rebuild index for portmaster.
>
> portmaster does not require the INDEX unless you tell it to. If you have a
> ports tree to operate against portmaster doesn't need the INDEX at all.
>
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Doug
>

My mistake, sorry. I'll rebuild INDEX after every merges, but not for
portmaster,
but for pver.

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