Elegant way to hack port source

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, March 19, 2010 13:01:30 -0700 Charlie Kester 
<corky1951 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Whenever I modify a port like this, I usually make a copy of it under
> root's home directory and install it from there.  That way, I can keep
> my copy of the portstree in complete synch with the official one, and
> there's no need to worry about updates quashing my changes.  It also
> provides a quick-and-dirty way to see which ports I've modified.
>

To the O.P.:

How about submiting the patch to the community so it can be added by the port 
maintainer?  If it actually fixes a bug in the software you can't be the only 
one would benefit from the patch.

-- 
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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