Hi all
I am new to MacPorts but have it installed (on Leopard), and have
further installed some ports both from the command line and using the
GUI Porticus.
I am working on a first portfile for client software GNUmed-client
which connects to a database. What the Portfile needs to mediate is
- user downloads the archive
- checksums applied and directory and contents extracted
- check and take care of dependencies
- there is no build (compilation) needed, because what is being
downloaded is just a directory containing subdirectories and python
source, which does not need compilation
- copy the extracted directory to a suitable machine directory (owned
by root) but also to the logged-in user's home directory
- also create some hard links but this bit I am not (at this time)
worried about :-)
I have read the following
http://guide.macports.org/
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/BuildPhases
but still have a few questions:
1. Am I right to surmise that the phases
fetch
checksum
extract
execute by default (without having to be declared), so long as
distfiles and checksums had been specified?
Does extraction rely on the value of "extract.suffix" or is the latter
used only for the fetch phase?
2. As our distfile is actually a directory which needs no compilation,
do I need to explicitly eliminate the following phases, using:
configure {}
build {}
destroot {}
or (in the case of configure) do I instead declare a keyword
use_configure no
or if configure {} is the same as use_configure no
then it doesn't matter? either gives identical results ??
3. If I would eliminate destroot, then there will exist no destrooted
files on which the install phase can act. So do I need to do
install{} ?
4. On Debian, in order to keep a copy of our client (owned by root)
available to supply machine-wide defaults, our project installs a copy
of the client in
/etc/
In MacPorts, I take it this should instead reside in:
/opt/local/var/macports/software/
as (for example)
/opt/local/var/macports/software/GNUmed-client-0.5.0
but we will also want creation of
~/GNUmed-client-0.5.0
So for this, would I declare a post-destroot phase, and how do I
achieve the two copying tasks above, since I am not sure whether the
source would be
${worksrcpath}
=
${prefix}/var/macports/build/${name}/work/${worksrcdir}
or would it instead be
${prefix}/var/macports/build/${name}/work/${name}
and if xinstall even copies recursively? I was guessing maybe
post-destroot { /
xinstall -m 755 -W ${worksrcpath} ${prefix}/var/macports/software/
xinstall -m 700 -d ~/{name}
xinstall -m 700 -W ${worksrcpath} ~/{name}
}
but would appreciate the guidance. As I figure this out, I am
identifying some possible improvements to the guide that I will like
to suggest for consideration.
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