local ports

Vulpes Velox v.velox at vvelox.net
Wed Apr 11 02:41:34 UTC 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:15:04 -0500
Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:

> Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > I was just wondering what any one else thought of the idea of
> > adding a local directory to the ports tree and to the .cvsignore.
> > This would be a directory for users to put local custom ports.
> 
> There's nothing to stop you from creating /usr/ports/local right
> now and just using it.  You don't need a .cvsignore if you are
> using cvsup/csup, they ignore files that aren't in the cvs repo
> anyways. Of course if you are using portsnap that might be a
> different story, not sure how it handles updates...

I know. :)


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