re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
Some good ideas there - sounds like we have the makings of an update to that wiki page happening. This looks workable. Might be nice someday to have this as a few simple commands, like homebrew's "peg" and "unpeg" commands. a command to list a port's history doing all that git stuff mentioned in

Re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-28 Thread Joshua Root
On 2016-12-29 11:53 , Fred Wright wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Ken Cunningham wrote: That gives you the full history of macports-ports back in time. Then use port info PORT to find the path to your port, eg in this example case devel/libuv It's unfortunate that there isn't a command to giv

Re: installing an older version of a port in the github era -- an answer

2016-12-28 Thread Fred Wright
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Ken Cunningham wrote: > So, this turns out to be a lot easier than I originally thought it > would be, and probably is no more difficult than svn was. This may not > be the most efficient way of doing it, but it's fairly easy to > understand, and it works for me. > > Here are

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Fred Wright
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, [windows-1252] Marko Käning wrote: > On 29 Dec 2016, at 00:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: [...] > > Today I'm exercising a somewhat weird practice. I collect just a small > > number of symlinks to macports-ports from git in my local tree. I'm > > not too happy about this though,

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Marko Käning
On 29 Dec 2016, at 00:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 28 December 2016 at 23:59, Marko Käning wrote: >> On 28 Dec 2016, at 23:18 , Marko Käning wrote: >> >>> This way I shouldn’t get any shadowing… >> >> Ha, and I wouldn’t see any updates of my local source either. > > Exactly. >> So, no, I

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 28 December 2016 at 23:59, Marko Käning wrote: > On 28 Dec 2016, at 23:18 , Marko Käning wrote: > >> This way I shouldn’t get any shadowing… > > Ha, and I wouldn’t see any updates of my local source either. Exactly. But one of the questions arises: why do you need the global index at all? > S

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Marko Käning
On 28 Dec 2016, at 23:18 , Marko Käning wrote: > This way I shouldn’t get any shadowing… Ha, and I wouldn’t see any updates of my local source either. So, no, I have to have my local port sources in front of the default rsync’ed source, if I am not completely mistaken. Shadowing is unavoidab

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Marko Käning
On 28 Dec 2016, at 23:10 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Just your local copy shadowing everything else in the global portindex. Jesus, I thought that the rsync tree would still be taken as the most up-to-date one. OK, that means I’d have to move my local tree behind the rync’ed one, right? This w

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Marko, On 28 December 2016 at 22:31, Marko Käning wrote: > Hi, > > just now I ran a selfupdate and didn’t get notified of any outdated ports: > --- > $ sudo port selfupdate && port outdated > Password: > ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > MacPorts base version 2.3.5 installed,

Re: Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Marko Käning
On 28 Dec 2016, at 22:31 , Marko Käning wrote: > What am I missing here? Or is MacPorts’ portindexing indeed not working > ATM!!!??? ... and, if it is indeed working - as to be expected - could my observations be linked to the fact that I have a local port directory with its own Portindex* fil

Central portindex'ing functional at the moment?

2016-12-28 Thread Marko Käning
Hi, just now I ran a selfupdate and didn’t get notified of any outdated ports: --- $ sudo port selfupdate && port outdated Password: ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync MacPorts base version 2.3.5 installed, MacPorts base version 2.3.5 downloaded. ---> Updating the ports tree ---> M