Re: workflow for managing ports pat ches against /usr/ports in poudriere

I rebase main onto my branch which contains local patches. Simple and effective. 
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Pardon the typos. Tiny keyboard in use.

On March 27, 2026 8:45:03 a.m. PDT, void <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On IRC I've been advised to use overlays for this.
>So let's say there's a port and the patches for it aren't in the tree.
>I download a fresh ports tree, null mount it and make that my overlay tree.
>Then strip out all the ports I don't want to patch, then patch the port in the
>overlay.
>
>Then
>
>poudriere bulk -j builder -p /usr/ports -O overlay category/patched-port
>
>is this correct? Or is the patch just put somewhere in the overlay tree?
>Or is there some documentation explaining exactly what to do?
>I have around five or so ports needing patches and the patches aren't in the
>official tree yet.
>
>The problem the above seeks to address is that, if /usr/ports is directly patched,
>when the time comes to update the tree, git pull --ff-only complains.
>Unless it's stashed then updated then un-stashed.
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