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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:44:40PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > That leads me to another question: Is there a way to do this while
> > preserving the configurations I made to the ports?
> > 
> if you have a normal installation, just move /use/ports
> to /usr/ports.whatever and create an empty /usr/ports.
> 
> You can then checkout the ports tree with svn.

I did just that. 

But it seems to me that I have now lost (aka 'it is in a different
copy of the ports tree) all the configuration changes I did to various
ports, like enabling patches in mail/mutt or which video drivers
x11/xorg should install... Is there a way to copy those from one copy
of a ports tree to another?

Or am I just overlooking something here? ;)