On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:07:28PM +1000, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-6-7 07:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > Before we release 1.9.0 we should probably resolve this situation, which
> > seems to be a step backward from 1.8.2 behavior:
> >
> > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25156
> >
> > If MacPorts 1.9.0-rc2 is installed on a machine without Xcode installed,
> > the portindex will be missing some ports. (With 1.8.2 a correct full
> > portindex is downloaded; 1.9 attempts to generate it itself and doesn't
> > totally succeed if Xcode isn't there.)
>
> It will download a full PortIndex from rsync when there isn't a local
> one (as soon as we put the platform specific indices on the server). But
> whatever, this will probably take less time to fix than it took to file
> the ticket.
>
What about for those who up their ports via svn? Will the platform
specific indexes be checked in, or do we need to add a portindex build
step to our workflows?
-eric
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