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 -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dluke@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+