Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I sometimes have to rebuild the PortIndex locally for testing, and > since it takes minutes to do that, I might want to install some port > while portindex is running. But this usually doesn't work because the > port I want to install usually has dependencies, and the portindex > script might not yet have gotten around to adding that port to the > new PortIndex. > > I think it would be nice for the portindex script to use a temporary > file for the new index, and only move it over the existing PortIndex > file when it's all through. Can anyone think of a reason why that > wouldn't work or wouldn't be desirable?
Sounds fine to me. Another nice thing to have would be a portindex option that just adds or updates the index entry for a given portfile, instead of rebuilding the whole thing. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
