I finally read chapter 4 of the guide, and it's all much clearer now. Thanks for your suggestions.
-Sterling On Aug 2, 2013, at 8:45PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2013-8-3 08:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Aug 2, 2013, at 17:41, Sterling Smith wrote: >> >>> When I developed a lone Portfile, port install seemed to try to go off and >>> look for the default python version of the port. For instance, I just >>> submitted https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39968 for a py-fortranformat >>> port, but when I tried `port install` in the directory with the Portfile, >>> it went off to look for py27-fortranformat, because I had specified >>> py-fortranformat as the name in the Portfile. By changing the name in the >>> Portfile to py27-fortranformat, I was able to install into MacPorts. >> >> You shouldn't need to change the port name. To install a subport of a port >> that's not yet in the index, specify the subport name on the command line >> like this: >> >> (in the py-fortranformat directory:) >> >> sudo port install subport=py27-fortranformat > > Alternatively, you can index it locally as per > <http://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html>. > > - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
