Re: Is there a well-defined way to do "bleeding edge" ports? Should there be one?

On 2022-05-21 at 20:23:49 UTC-0400 (Sat, 21 May 2022 20:23:49 -0400) Andrew Udvare 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 pr

Re: Is there a well-defined way to do "bleeding edge" ports? Should there be one?

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). I actually have a script to update my ports that are of 'latest version' tarballs. https://github.com/Tatsh/ports/blob/master/_resources/bin/liveup

Re: Is there a well-defined way to do "bleeding edge" ports? Should there be one?

On 2022-05-21 at 15:24:23 UTC-0400 (Sat, 21 May 2022 15:24:23 -0400) Andrew Udvare 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 e

Re: Is there a well-defined way to do "bleeding edge" ports? Should there be one?

Rather than pull via version control, grab a tarball with the SHA you want. That's how I do 'latest' version ports. On Sat, May 21, 2022, 11:23 Bill Cole < macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > I'm currently working on a OSS project (SpamAssassin) which is in a > pre-release rus

Is there a well-defined way to do "bleeding edge" ports? Should there be one?

I'm currently working on a OSS project (SpamAssassin) which is in a pre-release rush and which I ultimately test & deploy via MacPorts. I'd *like* to be able to switch from the current supported release in MacPorts to a fresh build from a Subversion checkout without manually mimicking what MP d

Re: macOS 12.3 and /usr/bin/python. Status?

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