What exactly are slave ports?

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 14/09/2016 à 21:03, abi a écrit :
> 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.

It sure is documented:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-masterdir.html

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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