category customports

Michelle Sullivan michelle at sorbs.net
Fri Feb 19 00:17:54 UTC 2016


Alphons van Werven wrote:
> Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote:
>
>   
>> But this could be overwritten with the next update.
>>     
> [snip]
>   
>> But this could also [sic] overwritten.
>>     
>
> You're using portsnap for your updates, I presume? Subversion will not
> override local changes (at least not without asking first). I have a tree
> here that contains local ports and locally modified ports. That's exactly
> why I use SVN instead of portsnap.
>
> You might get similar results if you use Git to update your tree, I don't
> know about that.
>
> HTH,
>
> AvW
>
>   
You know you can all run your own portsnap server to allow you to
include local changes?

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