Oh, I see the problem - we have releases up on github but they use the standard installer, which doesn't work for us on CI.
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:25 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 12, 2021, at 17:10, Mark Anderson wrote: > > > We could also host them using the releases system on github. > > But releases of what? > > I do not want to attach the getopt file to the releases of any MacPorts > repository because getopt is not our project and it does not change on the > schedule of our releases. > > I also don't want to attach the CI custom build of MacPorts to our > macports-base releases because people tend to download files attached to > releases and these files are not intended for users to download. > > Ideally our standard installer should be changed so that it can be used by > CI and not need a separate build. The main problem as I recall is that our > standard installer runs selfupdate and in CI we don't want to do that. I > had begun making a new installer some years ago which had many improvements > including allowing this step to be left out upon request but it is not > finished. > >
