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Subject: Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?
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freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au writes:

> Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the
> ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local
> tree be deleted by cvsup'ing?

Not with the default cvsup settings, no.
cvsup will only delete things that were in the tree to begin with, and
then removed.