upgrading a port with no maintainer

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 01:46, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:18 PM, kevin brown wrote:
>
>> Suppose I wanted to upgrade a version of a port with no  
>> maintainer,say, http://www.macports.org/ports.php? 
>> by=name&substr=pixen, from version 2.2 to 3.0.  How might I go  
>> about making the change on my local box (leaving the submitting a  
>> patch process out for the time being)?  Is there a doc you could  
>> point me to?  I'm familiar with how to perform this task in  
>> gentoo, but not yet very familiar with macports.
>
> 1. Easy enough - just change the Portfile with "port edit  
> <portname>", make your changes, test/edit/repeat.

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The doc to refer you to is:

http://guide.macports.org/

If you find it's unclear or doesn't contain the information you need,  
please point out how it could be improved. The guide authors are  
still refining it and would probably appreciate feedback.