local ports?

From: Jacob Smullyan (smulloni_at_bracknell.smullyan.org)
Date: 09/01/03

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To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Hi --

    I'm coming to FreeBSD after using Gentoo Linux extensively for a year
    and half, so I'm wondering whether some features of Gentoo have
    equivalents in FreeBSD ports:

    1. is it possible to specify a particular version of a port that you
    want to install, or is there only one version of a port available at
    any one time in a particular distribution branch?

    2. is it possible to have local ports, so as to keep my own ports
    (either new applications or development versions of pre-existing
    ports) in a separate place than the regular ports tree?

    I haven't come across this in the handbook, but I may have missed it.
    There may be other sources of documentation I've missed, too --

    Thanks!

    Jacob Smullyan

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