Mirroring is done for each variant and each platform, but not every
combination of variants or of variants and platforms, due to the
combinatorial explosion that would entail. Only the files needed by
+universal on the machine doing the mirroring are mirrored.
- Josh
On 2022-12-31 02:47 , mcalh...@macports.org wrote:
Thank you for the explanation.
Perhaps this is a question better suited to the development mailing list, but
why doesn’t the `universal` variant (which exists) achieve the same goal as the
`mirror_i386` variant?
-Marcus
On Dec 29, 2022, at 7:43 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote:
On 2022-12-30 04:58 , mcalh...@macports.org wrote:
Please forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure how `variant mirror_i386` works.
It exists but is *not* default, so how would it be set by the mirroring
mechanish?
If it is not set, how will `if {[variant_exists mirror_i386] && [variant_isset
mirror_i386]} {` ever run?
It's a hack for sure. The mirroring script mirrors ports with each of their
variants set, so that files only used by certain variants will be mirrored. In
this case, the files are (on i386) also used for reasons other than the variant
being set, so end users don't have to actually use the variant to benefit from
its files being mirrored.
- Josh
