How to "portinstall -P" packages that alter ther names via PKGNAMESUFFIX?

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0300
Panagiotis Christias <p.christias at noc.ntua.gr> wrote:

> The setup works quite well and has saved us a lot of time and effort. 
> Currently we are looking for ways to automate as much as possible the
> whole process. One of the problems we face is the initial
> installation of packages that alter their names, like
> sendmail+tls+sasl2+ldap+db46 and openldap-sasl-server. Seems like
> there is no obvious way to "portinstall -P" such packages.

This is sometimes handled through slave ports e.g.
net/cvsup-without-gui.

If there aren't too many variations you might create some local slave
ports.