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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:53:30 -0400
From:      Jacob Smullyan <smulloni@bracknell.smullyan.org>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   local ports?
Message-ID:  <20030901165330.GA10773@bracknell.smullyan.org>

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Hi --

I'm coming to FreeBSD after using Gentoo Linux extensively for a year
and half, so I'm wondering whether some features of Gentoo have
equivalents in FreeBSD ports:

1. is it possible to specify a particular version of a port that you
want to install, or is there only one version of a port available at
any one time in a particular distribution branch?

2. is it possible to have local ports, so as to keep my own ports
(either new applications or development versions of pre-existing
ports) in a separate place than the regular ports tree?

I haven't come across this in the handbook, but I may have missed it.
There may be other sources of documentation I've missed, too --

Thanks!

Jacob Smullyan


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