On Jan 9, 2015, at 7:32 AM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Exactly as I feared, my changes to the qt4, qt5 and kde4 portgroups need to 
> be copied to the portgroup directory in the default tree if they are to be 
> visible to all ports and not just to the ports in the local repository.
> 
> Which means that every selfupdate will undo any changes you might have 
> applied.

As Bradley intimated, you might be better off using a Subversion (or git-svn, 
if you're up for it) checkout as your default tree.

> Out of curiosity, what if I set my local repository to be the default? Will 
> selfupdate update that tree, or will it continue to update the one under 
> ${prefix}/var/macports/source/.... ?

`port sync` updates all sources that aren't marked "nosync" in sources.conf.

vq
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