New here to hacking on MacPorts; please talk to me like I'm dumb. Can anyone point me to a resource (or offer their own thoughts) on setting up test environments for ports?
The MacPorts Guide obviously describes setting up a local repository, but if I am, say, chasing a bug down during build, what is the best/easiest way to create a "clean" test environment? That is to say, say I have successfully built port_foo on my machine, but now a user or bug report says it's broken. (Perhaps a dependency is out of whack.) How can I build port_foo from "scratch," as if no ports at all are installed? (Without breaking my own, active macports tree, that is.) I could just rename the port in the Portfile in my local repository, but macports will find my local installed dependencies and it seems to me I want a "clean" environment where it won't. And please do redirect me to a different approach altogether if I am barking up the wrong tree. Thanks, David