On 2022-05-21 at 20:23:49 UTC-0400 (Sat, 21 May 2022 20:23:49 -0400)
Andrew Udvare <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
If it's off GitHub or GitLab you don't have to create the tarball
unless it
has submodules (you can also fetch multiple tarballs but this is
complex).
In this case (and for many ASF projects) the master version control is
Subversion, so the only way I'm getting a tarball is making it
client-side.
I actually have a script to update my ports that are of 'latest
version'
tarballs.
https://github.com/Tatsh/ports/blob/master/_resources/bin/liveupdate
That could be useful, thanks.
Unfortunately on MacPorts there's no PortGroup to use git or similar
to
fetch the latest code. I guess it's because it will almost certainly
bring
more tickets into the system
Understood. I see this mostly as a developers tool, with explicit
non-support.
especially when said latest versions are
important dependencies. On Gentoo we do have this feature (provided by
eclasses, equivalent of PoetGroup) and you have to make configuration
changes to use it when it comes to packages in the main tree. This
makes
the point that you're on your own when you start doing this to your
system.
You can write your own PortGroup to do this so the code can be shared
among
your ports, similar to Gentoo's way:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/eclass/git-r3.eclass
Basically, git clone if the clone isn't there already, update
otherwise
(replacing fetch phase). Don't forget submodules. Make the clone live
somewhere permanent until the package is uninstalled. When installing,
copy
recursively the clone to the normal build directory (replacing the
extract
phase) then the rest of the system can work as is.
Food for thought. Thanks.
On Sat, May 21, 2022, 16:38 Bill Cole <
[email protected]> wrote:
On 2022-05-21 at 15:24:23 UTC-0400 (Sat, 21 May 2022 15:24:23 -0400)
Andrew Udvare <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Rather than pull via version control,
Which is MY GOAL, not an incidental mechanical issue.
grab a tarball with the SHA you want.
Which would mean creating an ad hoc tarball before each (rapid)
update.
That's how I do 'latest' version ports.
Well, that requires:
1. creating a tarball
2. calculating the hashes
3. editing the portfile
Which is a lot of fiddling for each new version.
My goal is to NOT do all that, but to get the same installation that
I
would get if I did. It is also to have a way that non-developer users
can
easily install the actual latest version of the moment, which is
sometimes
the easiest way to get fixes that don't merit a full release.
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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