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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>I'd like to copy these into some sort of local ports directory, but that raises<br>a few questions:<br>
<br>-Is there an accepted location for this branch, ie: /usr/ports/local that will<br>not get blown away on a cvsup or portsnap update?</blockquote>
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<div> There is an LocalBase Port Location in FreeBSD.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-How does one handle packages that depend on say, qmail, but I now want to<br>depend on local-qmail? I know portupgrade can be tought this by setting an
<br>alternate pkgdep, but is there any clever way of doing this so that when you're<br>not using portupgrade the deps are adjusted?</blockquote>
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<div>Hope this might Help.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/25/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/25/Big_Scary_Daemons.html</a></div><br> </div>