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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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