From 37203c22d9b7d640f787950f4f75e36b40e63219 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 14:26:03 +0000 Subject: Document the support of overlays in CHANGES Reported by: many --- CHANGES | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'CHANGES') diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 808837dbc4b4..3e2e710195ca 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -16,6 +16,23 @@ AUTHOR: madpilot@FreeBSD.org USES=xfce now defaults to gtk3, so for ported applications requiring GTK2 XFCE support USES=xfce:gtk2 should be used. +20190903: +AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org + + The ports tree now supports overlays + + overlays are a way to help users to integrate their own ports tree + with the official ports tree without having to maintain clone of the + official tree and remerge on regular basis. + + The ports tree will lookup in the overlays (in the order the are listed in + OVERLAY variable) for the dependencies and the USES. It will use the first + found. + + in order to use it the user have to declare his overlays that way in their + make.conf: + OVERLAYS= overlay1 overlay2 overlay3 + 20181225: AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org -- cgit v1.2.3