What exactly are slave ports?

[abi]

I see. So, I'll create new one instead of slave.

On 14.09.2016 22:20, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 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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