On Jan 21, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:40:10PM -0500, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
Ugh. I never imagined port would behave in that way. Guess I'll have to constantly purge out my local ports directory. Fink properly looks in
each directory listed in its tree list.

I'd tongue-in-cheekly say RTFM, but there are so many places that information might be .. there really is no one manual.

It's not surprising that things are missed, even macports management misses things periodically.

Well it is there at...

http://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories

however that note should be enhanced to make the second point that retention of local portfiles will
block the proper updating from the rsync.

Come on now Jack. One has to edit sources.conf to add a repository and the comment in sources.conf is pretty clear, isn't it?

--
Brad

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