On Jan 30, 2022, at 09:15, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2022-1-30 21:12 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I'm actually not sure what kind of file MacPorts is expecting to find at
>> such a URL. I tried just a Portfile and a gzip-compressed tarball containing
>> a Portfile and files directory; neither worked. Maybe this feature just
>> doesn't even work anymore. I'm not sure why MacPorts ever had this
>> capability. MacPorts was probably designed in the early days to work on any
>> kind of URL, and to transform local port names into file URLs internally,
>> with the assumption that this flexibility might prove useful at some point,
>> but I think it ended up not being needed.
>
> There were plans at one point for remote ports tree support so users wouldn't
> have to download the whole thing. Seems to still work fine for me:
>
> % tar -cvzf ~/Downloads/testport1.tgz testport1
> a testport1
> a testport1/Portfile
> % sudo port install file://${HOME}/Downloads/testport1.tgz
> ---> Fetching distfiles for testport1
> ---> Verifying checksums for testport1
> ---> Extracting testport1
> ---> Configuring testport1
> ---> Building testport1
> ---> Staging testport1 into destroot
> ---> Installing testport1 @1.1_0
> ---> Activating testport1 @1.1_0
> ---> Cleaning testport1
This is what I tried:
$ port info
https://trac.macports.org/raw-attachment/ticket/37628/py-autopep8.tar.gz
---> Fetching port
https://trac.macports.org/raw-attachment/ticket/37628/py-autopep8.tar.gz
Can't map the URL
'https://trac.macports.org/raw-attachment/ticket/37628/py-autopep8.tar.gz' to a
port description file ("couldn't change working directory to
"/opt/local/var/macports/portdirs/py-autopep8.tar": no such file or directory").
Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
Error: Can't open URL
'https://trac.macports.org/raw-attachment/ticket/37628/py-autopep8.tar.gz' as a
port
Error: Improper expression syntax while processing parameters
After I do that, the tarball has been decompressed to
/opt/local/var/macports/portdirs/py-autopep8 which I then have to delete
manually.
Comparing with yours, I see that it does work if the extension is .tgz instead
of .tar.gz. How strange. Even then, the directory is left in portdirs for me to
clean up manually.
