On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Is there some mechanism that I'm missing to deal with a local
category? I've been googling without much luck, and I didn't see
this addressed in the porter's handbook.
Check the June 8 archives for this mailing list, for my message with
subject "Re: category for local ports".
I only use it for truly local ports, not altered versions of regular
ports. Can you not submit patches to them with appropriate flags to
set to get the behavior you desire?
Beyond that, I have a few other questions:
-By default cvsup and (I assume portsnap) would nuke anything in /
usr/ports that was not part of the main ports tree. How can this
be dealt with in a way that none of the current/future port update
methods will not clobber our local tree?
portsnap seems to leave my local subdir alone. I don't recall doing
anything special to make it ignore it.
-How does one handle packages that depend on say, qmail, but I now
want to
depend on local-qmail? I know portupgrade can be tought this by
setting
an alternate pkgdep, but is there any clever way of doing this so
that when you're not using portupgrade the deps are adjusted?
I doubt it. Answer is to always use portupgrade :-)
