how to install into staging area correctly?

[Max Brazhnikov]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:06:59 -0500 Vick Khera wrote:
> I have a port locally that does this to install a file so other ports that
> depend on this can have something to depend on from the file system.

You don't need any file, ports can depend on pkgname [1]:

p5-Spiffy>=0.26:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-Spiffy

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html

Cheers,
Max