Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:13:44 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: private ports and pkgs versioning Message-ID: <5805D9B8.50904@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <FA.1F.11795.2EFC5085@dnvrco-omsmta01> References: <1cba6ef9-89af-c3b8-48df-0cbdc8499b6c@freebsd.org> <FA.1F.11795.2EFC5085@dnvrco-omsmta01>
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Thomas Mueller wrote on 2016/10/18 09:31: > I too might like to compile something not in the ports tree, would like to make a category "mystuff" but don't really know how to make it work. > > I might get an error message for invalid category, as happened to me once in NetBSD with pkgsrc, and I also don't want it to be changed by svn update, or cvs update in the case of NetBSD and pkgsrc. > > One package of possible interest is Steffen Daode Nurpmeso's s-nail, to be renamed to s-mailx, which is an update to heirloom-mailx and mailx or nail; included in Arch Linux and OpenBSD ports. > > Or maybe I want to test a modification to an existing package. You can start by modifying existing port. If you want to and your own local category you should add it to /usr/ports/Makefile first (SUBDIR += mycategory) Then you should add new SUBDIR line to /usr/ports/mycategory/Makefile Miroslav Lachman
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