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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:47:28 +0100
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?
Message-ID:  <200604060147.30726.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <200604050035.k350Z9cP098258@app.auscert.org.au>
References:  <200604050035.k350Z9cP098258@app.auscert.org.au>

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On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:35, freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au wrote:

> to the +CONTENTS file for the package, but then portmanager complains that
> it is nonexistent and won't complete 'portmanager -s'. To make matters
> more awkward, this package is built from a closed-source binary
> distribution and thus can't be properly ported, so I can't set it up
> properly. 

A port does not have to be built from source, there are several (maybe many) 
closed-source packages in the ports-tree, for example:

archivers/rar
mail/mulberry
x11/nvidia-driver





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