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

[Panagiotis Christias]

RW wrote:
> 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. 

Wouldn't that require to create the ports INDEX file locally?

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Panagiotis J. Christias    Network Management Center
p.christias at noc.ntua.gr    National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE