Erich Eckner wrote in <alpine.LNX.2.21.99999.375.1911250848400.2310480@n\ lopc43.ioq.uni-jena.de>: |On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, KPECT wrote: |> Very often I use slightly modified ports just to achieve some additional \ |> or |> remove some extra options that the original port provides. I'd like to |> suggest to propose implementing a new ports function that would allow \ |> users |> to create a child port (for example in /usr/ports/custom) that has \ |> the same |> name as the parent, but which has some differences that the user needs. |> Every time the ports are updated if the version of the parent port is |> changed, this also affects the child ports, so you do not need to \ |> track them |> manually. .. |> I belieive that this is very demanded function. .. |I would definitely use that feature. My approach so far was: I also think this would be a nice feature! I could use that for the minimum adjustment i need for dnssmasq, for example. |put patches into /usr/patches/$repository/$port/ | |and apply them during `ports -u`, resigning the ports using a private key. | |The feature itself is implemented as a patch to ports: | |https://git.eckner.net/Erich/crux-patches/tree/core/ports | |What I like about this approach (and what I would like to see in an |official implementation, too), is, that you do not need to modify anything |in order to keep your packages up-to-date - as long as your patches |still cleanly apply. That is true. What i do not like with your approach is that the original port is lost. I mean, one could reverse-apply the patch and then everything is clear, even easier it is with a git-based port. But wouldn't it be nicer to have some e.g. PKGMK_PATCH_DIR= in /etc/pkgmk.conf, and to have build_package() of pkgmk look whether that exists and has something to apply for the current port, right after the call to unpack_source(), before it goes build()? On the other hand your approach integrates a signature. .footprint changes are a problem whatever you do?!? --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)