Management of ported 3rd-party software

[Norman Feske]

Hi Vasily,

> Maybe I had to say this early, but: 
> We, and Maybe someone else, have own repository with packages. We
> can/would not merge it with main branch of Genode. We have used
> directory in root Genode source tree, like dde_linux, before. So, how
> third party repos should look like in new directory layout?

there are two possible solutions.

First, you could place your own Git repository at '<genode-dir>/repos/'.
E.g., 'repos/ksyslabs.git'. (it might be useful to add repos/*.git to
the .gitignore file of Genode) Your repository will be automatically
scanned for ports.

Alternatively, you may place your repository at any arbitrary place and
just create a symlink at <genode-dir>/src/repos/ksyslabs pointing to
/your/place/of/choice. To support the symlink variant, I have just added
a small fixup commit to the staging branch.

Does that solve your problem?

Norman

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