Re: Ports with LOCAL/xxx as a MASTER_SITE

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 01:13:31 -0800 Yuri wrote > I came across a few ports like this. Most recently www/npm. It usually > turns out that some slightly modified version of sources is kept there @ > LOCAL/. > > Why not just have the patches under files/ do the modification, so that > it is p

Ports with LOCAL/xxx as a MASTER_SITE

I came across a few ports like this. Most recently www/npm. It usually turns out that some slightly modified version of sources is kept there @ LOCAL/. Why not just have the patches under files/ do the modification, so that it is public and reproducible? There are also GitHub and Bitbucket