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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:54:02 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Pav Lucistnik <pav_cz@volny.cz>
Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Makefile.local policy?
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:29:35PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> what's the policy about using Makefile.local files in ports?

It's not really guaranteed to work.  You pretty much need to use CVS
if you want to maintain local patches to the ports collection.
Alternatively, if all you're doing is setting options, then the penv
port lets you do this.

Kris

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