On 21 March 2018 at 14:26, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2018-03-20 12:42, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> netpbm is the most complicated one, tweaking the arguments and commands in
>>> order to first check out a sparse working copy and then to update only the
>>> two directories we want. I do intend to switch netpbm over to downloading
>>> from a GitHub mirror instead, which will leave only a few much simpler
>>> cases to deal with, but I'll be sad to see the flexibility of fetching from
>>> svn in MacPorts reduced.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing me to the netpbm port, I had not discovered it yet
>> during testing.
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/a10c4dc37f73423195ebb50a921714a6cdd62728
>
> With this commit, the whole fetch phase for netpbm would boil down to:
>
> fetch.type svn
> svn.url http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/
> svn.subdirs advanced userguide
That makes perfect sense and sounds super useful in general. Just a
question: what happens to the filename (and checksums) when the user
changes the value of svn.subdirs?
Random semi-unrelated suggestion (I didn't check how you solved the
problem yet): if I was you, I would add
--config-option=config:miscellany:use-commit-times=yes
to flags passed to subversion. (I just discovered that flag because I
had some problems on some buildbot setup and could not make that
setting work without a special flag.)
Mojca
