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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Gentoo frequently unanswered questions (FUQ)
  @ 2002-06-17 21:47 99%     ` Markus Brischke
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From: Markus Brischke @ 2002-06-17 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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



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