> On Nov 19, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 2015-11-20 07:04 , Terry Barnum wrote: >> My first post to macports-dev so please pardon the newbie questions. >> >> I've wanted to try my hand at creating a Portfile for the pypolicyd-spf >> package <https://launchpad.net/pypolicyd-spf/>. Postfix or Sendmail uses it >> to check a sender's SPF domain record to see if it's spoofed email. >> >> pypolicyd-spf's README says it depends on v2.0.9+ of the python-spf library >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymilter/>, which isn't in ports, and also >> depends on v2.1.10+ of the python ipaddr module, which is in ports but is an >> older version (v2.1.9). Current is 2.1.11 >> <https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/i/ipaddr/ipaddr-2.1.11.tar.gz>. >> >> Referencing the Macports docs, I created a local repository and successfully >> created local Portfiles to install the pymilter and ipaddr packages but then >> ran into warnings with the pypolicyd-spf port being installed into /etc. I >> think this means I need a patch file for its setup.py. Are there more >> examples of patchfiles? Like maybe a Dummy's Guide? ;) Or is it best just to >> look at other python Portfiles and see what they're doing? > > There isn't a standard way to do this, mostly because having to patch > build systems for this sort of reason is generally because the standard > way of doing things doesn't work. It's just a matter of going through > the code and finding out where the install location is defined, and > figuring out how to get our install location there instead.
Thanks Joshua. I'll have a look at some other ports. pixilla let me know about the pypi2port port which tries to build Portfiles for packages on the pypi site. I'm playing with it now. >> Also, what's the convention for when to name a port just py-* versus py2?-* >> or py3?-* > > The python portgroup handles creating a subport per supported python > version for you. You put 'name py-something' and 'python.versions 27 35' > and you will get subports py27-something and py35-something. Thank you (and Brandon on the -users list) for the explanation. -Terry > > - Josh Terry Barnum digital OutPost Carlsbad, CA http://www.dop.com 800/464-6434 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
