Proposal: mechanism for local patches

[RW]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:14:20 +0000 (UTC)
"G. Paul Ziemba" <pz-freebsd-ports at ziemba.us> wrote:

> john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au (John Marshall) writes:
> 

> >Or keep local patches under /var/db/ports/<port> rather than
> >building a new tree?
> 
> Hmm. I haven't really understood the way directories get named in
> /var/db/ports/ - what happens when there is a collision in the
> base name of two ports? It seems less obvious than
> /<foo>/${CATEGORY}/${PORTNAME}/

The names are not labelled by port names, but rather by UNIQUENAME


# UNIQUENAME  - A name for your port that is globally unique.  By default,
#               this is set to ${LATEST_LINK} when LATEST_LINK is set,
#               and to ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME} otherwise.