On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:35:10 b. f. wrote: > It sounds like you are using the wrong tools. Although portsnap (which > is not best suited for this purpose) has path arguments and an -l flag > that can be used to add or preserve local changes, and both portmaster > and portupgrade have options to ignore certain ports or to substitute > alternative dependencies, you shouldn't have to make use of them. > Instead, you should probably be using CVS (or another version control > system that can import CVS), which will make merging and reverting > changes easier. And naturally you shouldn't run updating tools until > you've modified your tree.
zfs should be mentioned as well. a tank/ports dataset with snapshots and clones can make switching tree, rolling back and merging test ports quite comfortable -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avi...@freebsd.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?", he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more."
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