On 30/8/2025 11:44, Chris Jones via macports-dev wrote:

Personally I have always favoured the git clone of the ports tree to the (default) tarball/rsync approach, as for me its just way more convenient. Why not just do this by default formthr ports tree ? I don’t think you would need any verification for this, as if you don’t trust what we get via a clone of the repo from github then we have much bigger issues, as for instance everything the buildbots build and distribute as binary installs are based on this approach, in essence.

This is only possible on recent systems as many older ones may not have a new enough version of git (or don't have git at all) or don't support new enough TLS versions to connect to GitHub. It also requires generating the PortIndex locally, which is a time consuming operation on older hardware or if there's no existing file to update.

- Josh

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