category for local ports

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Fri Jun 9 21:49:02 UTC 2006


On Jun 9, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

>> Then, to build the INDEX file I came up with a really great  
>> hack.... it
>> goes like this:
>
> You could create /usr/ports/Makefile.local containing:
>
>    SUBDIR += local
>
> which would then be incorporated in the usual 'make index' processing
> without any further ado.

Yeah, but that takes 25-35 minutes or more depending on the box.  My  
hack takes the existing INDEX and trickes make_index into adding the  
dependencies for the new local ports in just a few seconds.



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