installing subport from a portdir

René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 15:09:18 UTC 2019


On Tuesday June 11 2019 09:51:43 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Should it be? The use of command line variable overrides should not be encouraged for end users, though it is something developers might need occasionally.

In this case it's a crucial bit of information. WHich btw I didn't think to test because not all variables can be overridden.

I think it's either document this, or change "base" so it will recognise when a port name corresponds to a subport provided by the Portfile in the working directory.

R.


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