category for local ports

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Fri Jun 9 09:28:22 UTC 2006


Vivek Khera wrote:
> Basically I've settled on this approach, which has worked out extremely
> well for the last couple of days at least :-)
> 
> All local ports are in /usr/ports/local/kci-FOO for port named kci-FOO. 
> I prefix all my local ports with 'kci-' to make things easy to
> identify.  In /usr/ports/local is a Makefile with SUBDIR+=kci-FOO for
> each port just like any other category Makefile.
> 
> In pkgtools.conf I add 'local' to EXTRA_CATEGORIES.  This seems to be
> not used, but doesn't hurt.
> 
> 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.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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