Way to have portsnap follow the same ports tree PKG uses?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

Hey all,

There's some disconnect between the ports tree and pkg-ng -- there's no 
good, easy way to say "I want to build this port with some custom options, 
but I want all the dependencies installed via pkg.  (You can get run-time 
dependencies by installing it and removing it, then building your port -- 
but this still doesn't help build-time dependencies, which usually result 
in a string of "crap, crap, ctrl-c, pkg-install [build dependency], rinse 
repeat"

That said, since recent versions of FreeBSD started following the 
quarterly build cycles, it means that if you build a port against whatever 
portstap pulls in, it can potentially require newer versions of libraries 
than what you sanely have installed.

My question is: is there a way to have portsnap pull down the same 
"quarterly" that the pkg tree is being built against?  And if so, can it 
be made the default?

-Dan

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