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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 2004 03:05:34 +0100
From:      Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu>
Message-ID:  <20040201020534.GB32284@ice.42.org>

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:56 +0100, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
> There no way to maintain a local only files with CVSUP mirroring?

Unfortunately there is no sane way.

> Like foo/bar/files/patch-local1 ? How can I save from being overwritten by
> the cvsup mirror?

I once submitted a patch to allow exactly that (ports/23287), but it was
rejected.

CU,
    Sec

P.S.: When I talked about this idea to a NetBSD maintainer, he liked the
      idea and committed this feature then next day :)
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