What exactly are slave ports?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:03 PM, abi <abi at abinet.ru> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to add to existing port another one for the same program, but with
> different git branch and (possibly) with slightly different dependencies.
> Is this a good case for slave port ?
> Slave ports are not documented in porter handbook and I'm not sure how
> they work and when used.
>
> Thanks.
>

A slave port is a minor modification of the port to support different
functions. E.g. security/ssh-guard has slightly different builds, all from
a common source.  One for each of the commonly used firewalls; ipfw, pf,
null.

If the sources are different, a slave is not appropriate. Examples are the
various versions of postfix and clang.
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