Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:08:01AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > I am looking for an easy way of installing the development version > (HEAD) of grass. > > under homebrew, I can simply say > > ,---- > | brew install grass --HEAD > `---- > > to instal the development version instead of the stable one - is there > something similar in port?
MacPorts deliberately does not support this; there are no metrics to find out when to consider such a port outdated and the build does not yield reproducible results. If you need this, create a local portfile repository, copy the grass Portfile to this tree, modify it to fetch from current git head and change the commitish whenever you need a new version. You'll probably have to add a artificial version number (like a date) to get port to recognize that grass has been updated, since git commits aren't monotonic. BTW: MacPorts will not stop you from specifying HEAD or master as git commit to fetch. You can use sudo port upgrade --force grass to build a new version then. -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
