How do I ask Macports to install a dependency package from local source?

So I know how to do that with 'brew' on my OSX 10.11.6 but "How do I ask Macports to install a dependency package locally?" And I don't take 'No, this is NOT allowed' for an answer. There is a number of reasons as to why 'allowing local source' to be incorporated into 'macport' maintained system is important The most promising tip I reviewed so far is from this previous post: #1 credited to Lothar Haeger on the Macports mailing On my system, I am running MacFUSE 4.10.0. Installed via Native Apple .pkg installation. Current MacPorts only goes so far as osxfuse @3.8.3 and somehow it FAILED at fetching it. I need to get Macports to know this latest version of MacFUSE. And my original failed port task is to install 'sudo port install android-file-transfer-linux', it calls osxfuse and broke at that point...