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+----[ Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> (11.Jan.2005 14:33):
|
| On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:08:28PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
| > 
| > I want to install a port which is not yet in the ports tree,
| > (i.e. it will not be in the INDEX either) and I do not want
| > pkgdb, portupgrade, etc. to complain.
| 
| What sort of errors do you get? I do it all the time, and I only
| get some warnings that can be ignored.
| 
| greets, t.
|
+----]

I do not get any errors, just warnings, notices. 

Of course, I can live with this, but I started to think that
maybe I'm missing something obvious, and that everyone else
is doing this in a wiser way :)

Fernan