Hey, Ok great. I will write a basic guide by tonight. Just tell me where should I push the code. I would prefer if it is a different repository atleast for now but I am fine with anything.
Thanks, Karan Sheth On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 2:58 AM Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Karan, > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 16:00, Karan Sheth wrote: > > > >> My suggestion would be: could you perhaps share the sources > >> (Dockerfile I guess; together with some basic usage instructions)? We > >> could probably add a repository under github/macports-gsoc or so. Then > >> I could at least build an image locally instead of getting something > >> incompatible. > > > > I had previously just docker pulled ubuntu and installed macports > manually on it and then commiting the changes. > > I don't fully understand why the error occurred for you, isn't docker > supposed to be free of such errors? > > Please test the Dockerfile attached with this mail by building it using > "docker build". > > It might take upto 30 to 45min to build. > > Can we push this hobby project that you made further and commit the > changes into one of the MacPorts repositories (including some super > basic documentation about how to run it) before it gets lost? > > For the moment I would only commit the sources (configuration) since > the binary image is still causing some issues due to bugs in macports > base (which need to get fixed anyway). > > I would either put the configuration somewhere in > https://github.com/macports/macports-base > or maybe macports-contrib, or its own repository altogether. > > We could of course also make some official "MacPorts" images, but > that's the next stage. > And we could try to generate portindex for linux on our server, which > would dramatically reduce the build time. That said, I'm not even > entirely sure if building portindex should be part of the image > generation steps. The package index is definitely missing when you > fetch an ubuntu image, for example, for the sake of saving space. > > Any thoughts? > > Mojca > -- <https://www.somaiya.edu> <http://www.somaiya-ayurvihar.org> <http://nareshwadi.org> <http://somaiya.com> <http://www.helpachild.in> <http://nareshwadi.org>
