On 9/21/07, Daniel J. Luke <dluke@geeklair.net> wrote:

On Sep 21, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Roger Hoover wrote:
> The use case that I'm interested in is being able to add a new
> variant to php5 to support the "--enable-sockets" option.
> Ultimately, I think it should be incorporated into the macports
> distribution but there should be a way to experiment with local
> modifications to Portfiles without corrupting what gets rsynced
> from macports.org and worrying that it will get overwritten with
> next rsync.

You want a local portfile repository.

See: http://geeklair.net/macports_guide/#development.local-repositories
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