suggested patch for bsd.ports.mk

[Julian Elischer]

On 13/05/2016 3:26 PM, Andrzej Tobola wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:11:47AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> This patch is pretty self explanatory.
>>
>> it allows us to keep patches for various ports separately in a sparse
>> hierarchy while not having to write to the ports tree itself.
>>
>> In case the list scrubs hte text attachment (diff) here's the
>> description part of the diff.
> >From a long time I am using unionfs - it simpler and allows also
> to modyfy/mask all port files - e.g:
>
>    mount -t nullfs -o ro  /pub/FreeBSD/SVN/ports /usr/ports
>    mount -t unionfs -o ro /usr/local/ports       /usr/ports
>
> -a
>
that is cool but it is not really suitable for use in a company's 
build farm.