PortGroup directory hierarchy/priority
René J. V. Bertin
rjvbertin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 13:36:26 PDT 2016
Rainer Müller wrote:
> Does your custom ports tree not just provide a custom implementation of
> this port group? Or do the ports using this modified port group not need
> any further modifications, but you do not want to copy all Portfiles to
> your ports tree?
I indeed have custom Qt5 and CMake PortGroups (and a few others), and indeed I
do not want to copy all ports that depend on either Qt5 or CMake (or both) into
my own port tree. My own port tree only contains my own ports, and a number of
ports that have local patches, updates or have been kept at an older version.
Evidently, I do want all ports that build using CMake to use my PortGroup
version, idem for Qt5 (and Qt4 and KDE4).
So in the end I copy my PortGroup files into the rsync-based default port tree,
and I don't run selfupdate anymore (I cherry-pick upgrades from the svn port
tree instead). I have no idea how long I'll be able to keep that up ...
Mojca:
> Most often I was getting errors saying that a required variable (which
> I just added to the PortGroup) was not defined.
...
> Next time when I hit a problem I'll try to investigate in the spirit
> of tree where the PortGroup lives.
I think you're
> The lookup strategy is also the same for mirror/archive sites,
How many ports need to change those?
> variant descriptions, livecheck
Those are mostly defined in ports, I'd say, or in some cases in PortGroups.
> . I am not sure whether it would make sense to
> change this for all of them (for example archive sites are definitely
> only local to a ports tree) or to introduce a special lookup just for
> port groups...
Can you give examples? I'm having trouble imagining why there would be any need
to change the lookup strategy for those.
R
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