On Dec 8, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> "port mpkg" should package a port and all its dependencies, with the >> variants you specify. So if you "sudo port mpkg foo +bash_completion +dbus >> +doc +hdri +huge +icu +jbig +jpeg2 +nls +openldap +openssl +pear +perl5_12 >> +pcre +postgresql92 +python +python27 +svn +ssl +tools +ucs4" it should >> package up that port and its dependencies with those variants. If that >> works, then I guess the bug is that mpkg doesn't read variants.conf? mpkg >> seems to be its own little world; there are several outstanding bugs >> affecting only mpkg. > > This is a bug I've experienced as well: the variants chosen actually change > as it trickles down the tree. Something somewhere clobbers the set of > variants.
I'll probably spend some time on this this week. While I'm asking, can you make a mpkg that contains say git-core, which depends upon a ton of stuff, install it, then if zlib is updated, make a pkg for that and install it on top of the zlib pkg embedded in the mpkg? Blair _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
