Re: Customizing an install

On Sep 4, 2006, at 5:53 PM, darwinports-request <at> opendarwin.org wrote:

> From: Frank McPherson <frank.mcpherson <at> janusresearch.com>
> Date: September 4, 2006 6:21:39 AM PDT
> To: Adam Price <ami <at> spamcop.net>
> Cc: darwinports <at> opendarwin.org
> Subject: Re: Customizing an install
>
>
> Adam,
>
> You can use 'port extract amphetamine' to extract the distribution  
> files for the port. Then, 'port dir amphetamine' to find out where  
> it's located on your file system. Go in there and change the files  
> you want. Then you can either 'port install amphetamine' and I  
> think it'll use the working copy of the source you just changed.  
> Or, you can use the other developer targets for port for finer- 
> grained control over the process: port configure, port build, port  
> archive, port activate, whatever. 'man port' lists all the targets  
> for port, but doesn't have very good examples in that section, so I  
> had to apply a bit of trial and error to do this type of thing.
>
> Frank
>
>

Thanks - that got me going.

-Adam