On Monday June 01 2015 15:56:32 Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> One usual and easy solution to this problem is to use lexicographic
> order and let the files start with a number: e.g.
> 10_macports.conf
> is the default, most third party repositories should have a name
Which also means that you have to rename all files if you want to change order.
It would be easier to use a separate file in sources.conf.d, say
sources.conf.d/order which lists the files in the desired order of priority,
possibly with tags like nosync .
Of course then you're back to rewriting a file like with sources.conf itself,
but one with a simpler format, and less crucial. For instance, base could
reject the file and use only sources.conf if there's some form of corruption.
> I tried to write the Portfile so that when one tries to uninstall it, it
> will undo whatever was done during installation.
So is there 1 Portfile per external repository? Did you handle deactivation or
did you simply make it impossible (which would probably be the best thing to do
but I don't know if it can be done).
I still think that whatever can be done with a Portfile in this domain can also
(and better) be done with a dedicated script, a la add-port-repository.
All this got me wandering to wondering about hacking a version of APT on top of
the port command ... no, I don't think I just admitted that :)
> I was just thinking that since this [per-port priorities] hasn't been done
> before, it is going to
> have a higher risk and likely take longer to "bring to market".
I doubt that. AFAIK MacPorts uses indices ("portindex" files) internally, and I
find it difficult to believe that it'd be hard to get this right without long
periods of testing.
Anyway I think that those port priorities would be optional, fall back to the
default priority if they don't compute, and at least in a 1st implementation
only concern from what repository a given port is installed. That's not
particularly hard to implement:
if port has priority setting
set prefdir to port preferred repository
if prefdir = "default" set prefdir to default repository # redundant but what
the heck
set portdir to port preferred repository if it exists
set portdir to default repository if unset
R.
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