[MacPorts] howto/PatchLocal deleted version

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 14, 2014, at 14:48, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2014, at 5:53 PM, MacPorts <noreply at macports.org> wrote:
>> Version "7" of page "howto/PatchLocal" was deleted by cal at macports.org
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>> Page URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PatchLocal>
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> Version "3" of this HowTo introduced "/usr/local/ports/" for a local repository directory. This appears to go against the MacPorts policy of an empty "/usr/local".
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> Would "/opt/macports/ports", "/opt/ports", "~/misc/MacPorts/ports" or similar be a better repository location for this HowTo?

That might be better. Having it in /usr/local will not cause problems, except if we were to ever advise the user to move /usr/local aside.

> The "~/misc/MacPorts/ports" path is part of the comments in etc/macports/sources.conf.

Paths inside a home directory have been problematic ever since the privilege dropping branch from GSoC ’08 was merged in, because the macports user cannot look inside your home directory.