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Subject: Re: Migrating from ports to pkg
From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
>         When there are only a small number of ports with special options
> it's quite easy to just build the essential ports using make missing to get
> a list of packages to install before building each port. Just don't forget
> to pkg lock all the customised packages so they don't get replaced by
> standard ones during an upgrade.

Got it, thank you,

Chris