Clemens Lang <c...@macports.org> writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:08:01AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> I am looking for an easy way of installing the development version >> (HEAD) of grass. >> >> under homebrew, I can simply say >> >> ,---- >> | brew install grass --HEAD >> `---- >> >> to instal the development version instead of the stable one - is there >> something similar in port? > > MacPorts deliberately does not support this; there are no metrics to > find out when to consider such a port outdated and the build does not > yield reproducible results. If you need this, create a local portfile > repository, copy the grass Portfile to this tree, modify it to fetch > from current git head and change the commitish whenever you need a new > version. You'll probably have to add a artificial version number (like a > date) to get port to recognize that grass has been updated, since git > commits aren't monotonic.
OK - thanks for the info. > > BTW: MacPorts will not stop you from specifying HEAD or master as git > commit to fetch. You can use sudo port upgrade --force grass to build a > new version then. So then I would have to install grass as usual via ,---- | port install grass `---- and then upgrade it and specify to use HEAD to fetch - how can I do this? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users