On Aug 6, 2008, at 01:48, Joshua Root wrote: > 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.
Super! I filed a ticket so we don't forget: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16234 > 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. Great idea. Filed here: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16235 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
