Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 08:42:50PM -0500, Andres Freund wrote: >> On macos we can't currently use images, so we just cache all the installed >> macports packages. The cache is keyed by OS version and list of packages to >> be installed, with no other forced invalidation right now. So it's hard to >> predict when a new version of a package will be picked up and it will differ >> between git repositories. I've been wondering whether the cached macports >> install should just be regularly generated instead, along the other ci >> images.
> The change is not in a release yet. We could have macos install IPC::Run from > github, or I could get a release cut so it can make its way to macports. > https://ports.macports.org/port/p5.34-ipc-run/builds/ suggests it ingested the > last release within a couple days of release, so macports itself may add > negligible latency. Yeah, my experience is that macports is pretty quick about picking up new releases. If you can persuade upstream to make a release happen, that'd be great. regards, tom lane
