From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from q.math.fu-berlin.de (q.math.fu-berlin.de [160.45.44.194]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A46ABD6B for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:47:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 30155 invoked by uid 10062); 17 Jun 2002 21:47:16 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:47:16 +0200 From: Markus Brischke To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Gentoo frequently unanswered questions (FUQ) Message-ID: <20020617214716.GA30108@Q.math.fu-berlin.de> References: <3D099405.5090608@web.de> <20020614085811.GA24969@Q.math.fu-berlin.de> <1024073640.18736.54.camel@red.ces.clemson.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1024073640.18736.54.camel@red.ces.clemson.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Mailer-Info: http://www.zoke.de Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: zoke-gentoo@zoke.de List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 3a737a6b-e232-42c8-a504-2a9d5f04303f X-Archives-Hash: 48d8cba19efc1046cd06c968d742d892 Quoting Grant Goodyear (g2boojum@gentoo.org): > > Another (yet unanswered) question for myself could be: > > > > How can i manage my own ebuildfiles/packages without destroying them by (r)sync? > > > > I am looking for an elegant way to manage my (own) testingpackages and > > packages which are not part of gentoo yet :) Any clues? > > Yep. Take a look at the FAQ; I just added your question and a > moderately detailed answer. Thanks. Using cvs is one good method. I thought about a bit the problem. Another solution is a symbolic link to the local directory given in categories. So it may be easy to do the following in the first step. Integrate local in the "master" categories and set a symbolic link local. Then you can use the rsynccommand with --safe-links (only if the directory behind local is placed outside which is in this case the only logic). This all is imho only a cludge. Imho we should think about how to integrate userdefined ebuild-files more smoothly. Ways doing this could be: - Creating something like PORTAGE_PATH - making a config file for categories in /etc and inherit all the different categories (problem is the outside PORTDIR thing. But i didn't understand why an ebuildfile explicitly defined fullpath must be inside PORTDIR (question for the faq? ;))). - making a subdir prestine and syncing only this (but the categoriesproblem is still to be solved here). But in this case i think cvs is the right answer, because making diffs is more easy :) Have fun. Markus