From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 16:18:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1E716A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:18:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765B043D49 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:18:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4052DB810 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:24:49 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: ports@freebsd.org From: Vivek Khera Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:24:48 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: Subject: best practices for private ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:18:26 -0000 I have a few meta-ports I use to configure my base systems. eg, I have a "kci-dbserver" port that just has runtime requirements for postgres, slony, mysql, and nullmailer. Right now I made a subdirectory in ports called local to put them in, but portsnap likes to delete it regularly :-( These are very specific to my server configurations so don't really make sense for inclusion in the main ports tree. What is the preferred location/mechanism for having local ports? Ideally I'd like it to integrate with portupgrade which looks only in /usr/ports/* for the port files.