Keeping local modifications

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2006-10-22 13:33:46 -0700, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> I'm keeping some local modifications to some portfiles to keep them  
> working with a bunch of local modifications to the system. In order to  
> do this, I copy the ports I modify to a local dports dir and make the  
> changes there so they won't be lost when I do a selfupdate.

I do that too.

> Is there some way that I can make my locally modified ports totally  
> replace the official ones? Just adding a Revision tag makes them  
> impossible to distinguish in the list and I also see both versions.

I don't understand. They have the precedence over the official ones
(as given in the $prefix/etc/ports/sources.conf file). The official
port still appears in "port list", but this isn't much a problem.

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