Rather than pull via version control, grab a tarball with the SHA you want. That's how I do 'latest' version ports.
On Sat, May 21, 2022, 11:23 Bill Cole < macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > I'm currently working on a OSS project (SpamAssassin) which is in a > pre-release rush and which I ultimately test & deploy via MacPorts. > > I'd *like* to be able to switch from the current supported release in > MacPorts to a fresh build from a Subversion checkout without manually > mimicking what MP does (in part because I'm not 100% confident that I am > doing it right) so that I can do testing iteration in a more efficient and > repeatable fashion. This would be a different level of 'reckless cowboy' > beyond the '-devel' ports we already have here and there with prerelease > software. > > I expect that this does not exist (I can't find anything...) but that it > could. MP would need to always do a fetch/checkout/update/pull from the > source control repo (I presume it would need BOTH svn and git support) and > require use of a secure transport to make trusting the code without tarball > checksums reasonable. > > Does anyone else like the idea of this? See a need? Hate it? Already have > a private tool for this? > > -- > Bill Cole > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire >
