Thanks for your response.

On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:21, Jeff With wrote:
> >On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:02 -0500, Madhusudan Singh
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >  Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing
> > those parts from source. However, is there a way to let the local ports
> > hierarchy "know" that a certain package has been installed, albeit by
> > other means ?
>
> The handbook answer.. broken ports: fix-it, gripe or find our package
> from a local mirror...
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-broken.html
>
> .. or
>
> build your own package w/ pkg_create
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_create&sektion=1&apropos=0&man
>path=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports

Thanks for the link. I might want to do this.

>
> what ports you are trying to build?

zope-cmfphoto for one.
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