[nycbug-talk] local ports

[Marc Spitzer]

On 12/2/05, Bjorn Nelson <o_sleep at belovedarctos.com> wrote:
> NYCBuggers,
>
> I just posted this to the freebsd-arch mailing list.  What is
> everyone's thought on this?
>
> "I propose a new port category called local or site.  This would not
> get updated with the cvsup, but would allow people to have a place to
> put ports that they want to keep internal to their site.  I am
> currently exporting a ports tree to a bunch of other hosts and it
> would be handy if I could just put ports for our proprietary apps in
> there and not worry about keeping a forked bsd.port.mk."

Sounds like one of those really simple and useful ideas tha make
people say "I could have though of that"

marc
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