On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > If you have fetched the sources and wish to try again after making changes to > the portfile that do not affect the fetching, you could use > > sudo port -o install > > "-o" means "don't clean a work directory older than the portfile"
Oh, thank you very much. I didn't know about the option "-o". Actually, this might come in handy even when extracting tar.gz takes a long time ;) > That can work for a little while, but you have to remember to use "-o" and > it's not convenient if you are trying to work on updating patchfiles. > > A solution I used while working on alienarena (when their released version > didn't work and I was fetching from svn) was to check out once (I think it > came to about 1GB), then create a tarball of it and manually put that into > distfiles/alienarena on my system, then change the port back to the default > fetch.type and add those checksums (or even disable checksum checking). Then > I could clean and try again as much as I wanted without having to re-fetch > (unless I wanted to change what revision I was fetching). I didn't commit > this but it did speed development. This is exactly what I did at first, but it's a bit inconvenient for exchanging the Portfile during development. Now I switched to a github mirror. Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
