On Sep 13, 2017, at 08:42, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2017-09-13 11:48, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> When trying to update x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc I noticed that GCC 7.2 no >> longer provides bzip2 sources, but I'm not sure how to tell the >> Portfile that it should use xz instead of bzip2 given that the >> crossgcc group already contains "use_bzip2 yes". > Normally, this would be as simple as 'use_xz yes' in the Portfile to > override the 'use_bzip2 yes' of the PortGroup. [...]
I haven't had a great deal of success with that myself. It seems to me that currently a port (and any portgroups it includes) should use at most one of the compression format options (use_bzip2, use_xz, etc.) and only set it to yes, and not attempt to set it to no and change it later.
