Thank you both for your responses! (Sorry it took me a bit to follow through on them; my day job intervened.)
> On 21 August 2016 at 13:32, Yongwei Wu wrote: >> Maybe the following two links? >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort >> https://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories I'm not sure whether the first of those was what I was looking for, but the second was exactly on-point. Thank you, Yongwei! Mojca, if that lengthy explanation was not a thing that you had stashed to copy-paste already, I think that it should be. Or, plausibly more usefully in the general case, maybe it should get its own space under guide.macports.org? (Clearly, all this information’s in there somewhere, but a “quick start” section in chapter 4, ala https://guide.macports.org/#using.common-tasks, is what I was looking for, and you wrote up here.) > On 21 Aug, 2016, at 17:53 EDT, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > - you should get an error along with the suggested new checksums that > should be replaced in the Portfile (make sure that the checksums are > correct before copy-pasting them and that you fetch the right files) Apologies if this is a common question (if there’s a way to search PiperMail archives that isn’t “download all of them and use grep locally”, I’ve never known what it was), but I didn’t see an explicit facility to list a cryptographic signature for the distribution files. Is that a done thing? (I can see how one could do this by adding the signature file to $distfiles and then putting the signature verification in a post-checksum step, but if there’s some standardized “make sure some sort of PGP exists locally and just warn, rather than fail, if it doesn't” code, I figure it’s probably better to adhere to that.) > Once you get that working, you can open a new ticket to request an > upgrade. You could run "svn diff" inside abcde and attach the diff to > the ticket. (Please note that we will soon try to switch to pull > requests on GitHub.) > > Ideally you would also volunteer to be the maintainer of that port > that currently has nobody to look after. All done: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52122 Thanks for your assistance! -- Gabriel Rosenkoetter g...@eclipsed.net
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