On Jul 23, 2007, at 15:22, Thomas De Contes wrote:
The latest development version of the MacPorts code,
which may not work or may not work with the current portfiles,
is:
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/
thank you :-)
2 questions :
i remember that the cvs command caused to download
base/
doc/
dports/
www/
and some readme files
You mean the svn command.
1 : does't it need to download at least dports, to know the list of
available ports ??
No, it doesn't. You only need base, which is the source code of the
project. "./configure", "make" and "sudo make install". Then run
"sudo /opt/local/bin/port selfupdate" which will check if there is a
new version of MacPorts available (and, if so, will download it and
"./configure", "make" and "sudo make install" it), and will also
download the dports tree via rsync. (You can optionally use svn
instead of rsync to get the dports tree; see another message of mine
on this list from a couple minutes ago.)
2 : why is there no longer in macports the readme files that there
were in darwinports ?
I don't know what files you're referring to. What was in them? What
information are you missing?
You don't really need to get the code from out repository though.
Just download and install the disk image as above. Though you can
certainly build it from source if you prefer that, for some reason.
i want to personalize the install directory to not need to be root,
i don't know if the binaries would support it (svn doesn't support it)
Oh, ok. You're right, the binaries only work in /opt/local. If you
want your own prefix, you need to download the source and "./
configure --prefix=/whatever/you/want"
(btw, currently port upgrade outdated gives a big error msg if
there is no port outdated)
Yes, that problem has already been reported:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12288
Patches to correct it are of course welcome!
On Jul 23, 2007, at 16:36, Thomas De Contes wrote:
oh, it's possible to use rsync ! :-)) i didn't know
it's very nice, because it allows me to install macports on a new
computer, needing neither macports binaries, nor svn binaries :-)
i hope it will be maintained as is at least since svn will be
integrated in mac os x, will it ? (who decides this sort of thing ?)
well, no matter if there is no svn URL which always points to the
latest stable released version, since there is an rsync one :-)
MacPorts has used rsync for a long time (since the beginning?) and I
don't know of any plans to remove that functionality.
FYI: I believe Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will include Subversion (in the
Developer Tools a.k.a. Xcode).
the command to do to use rsync is
rsync -azv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/base/
macports/
isn't it ?
I don't know; I don't regularly use rsync and generally have to
consult the manpage myself.
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