Integrating Custom Ports

[Rick Miller]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/10/2013 09:37, Rick Miller wrote:
> >
> > This is my first foray into Ports beyond just installing what is
> available.
> >  So, just looking for some feedback from others doing similar.  Is there
> > someone that can provide a few pointers in putting together and managing
> > such a system?
> >
>
> Rick,
>
> So the way we've been doing it is with git.
>
> I started by forking the ports tree from here:
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/
>
> After cloning the fork to disk, I added a new "remote" for the original
> ports tree:
>
> % git remote add freebsd https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
>
> I then added any custom ports / patches to our fork. When I want to
> import changes from upstream I just go to my fork and do a new pull:
>
> % git pull freebsd master
>
> Merge any conflicts and commit.
>

Haha.  Thanks, Kris!  I was making this harder than it needed to be :)  I
appreciate the simple solution!