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Date:      Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:53:40 -0500
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: seeking advice WRT maintaining private FreeBSD ports branch
Message-ID:  <20030308195340.GN41124@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030308150331.GB578@straylight.oblivion.bg>
References:  <20030307215517.GD41124@numachi.com> <3E691AAC.F7AE8A31@mindspring.com> <20030307223647.GE41124@numachi.com> <20030308150331.GB578@straylight.oblivion.bg>

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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:03:31PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:36:47PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > Um, some of these tweaks are _not_ going to be accepted, such as
> > commenting out 'NO_PACKAGE' out of a makefile.
> 
> Treating the symptom rather than the problem, but NO_PACKAGE is easily
> overridden by setting the FORCE_PACKAGE environment variable.  Hm, I
> just found out that this is not documented in the comments at the top of
> bsd.port.mk...

Never heard of such a thing, and I would have been happy to make
use of it, for this once specific thing.  Is there a ready example
of it's usage?

> As for treating the actual problem, CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM should
> generally fit your needs.

So I hope, I have yet to test-fire that setup.  But, thanks for the
feedback...

> G'luck,
> Peter

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