Bug 204133

Summary:	Please add 'local' to VALID_CATEGORIES
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Ian Lepore <ian>
Component:	Ports Framework	Assignee:	Port Management Team <portmgr>
Status:	Closed Not Accepted
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	bdrewery, koobs, ports-bugs
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch
Version:	Latest	Flags:	koobs: merge-quarterly?
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Ian Lepore freebsd_committer

2015-10-29 21:33:51 UTC

Since the ports infrastructure requires that every port have a CATEGORY= that is in the list of valid categories, please add 'local' to VALID_CATEGORIES to allow for local ports within an organization.

Comment 1 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer

2015-10-30 08:42:50 UTC

You can do this many ways yourself, without patching anything in the ports tree, for example, what I do is in the port Makefile, put:

CATEGORY=  local
VALID_CATEGORIES+=  local

Comment 2 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer

2015-10-30 13:46:15 UTC

I think the best thing is probably to entirely relax the concept of category.

I never understood the reasoning behind that concept beside issues with make index probably.

adding a local category by default sound reasonable to me until we come with something better.

Comment 3 Bryan Drewery freebsd_committer

2015-10-31 04:00:02 UTC

More proper places are:
/etc/make.conf
Mk/bsd.port.local.mk

I've written a ports_make.conf thing at work too I can should share if interested.