Management of ported 3rd-party software

[Sartakov A. Vasily]

Hello. 

>> 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?

I think yes. Thank you. I will tell which way we will choose later.


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Sartakov A. Vasily
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