Using MPAB (was: archive_sites in Portfiles)

2011-01-09 Thread Joshua Root
On 2011-1-10 17:29 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Assuming that Bill already had everything up and running (and I know > that there were some glitches with the last upgrade that still need to > be resolved), what would be the setup instructions for configuring and > running MBAP in the configurati

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-09 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > It's frustrating having to wait on things outside our control, but I'm > sure Bill is doing everything he can to make it happen. Assuming that Bill already had everything up and running (and I know that there were some glitches with the last upgr

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-08 Thread Joshua Root
On 2011-1-9 02:51 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >>> Why can't maintainers offer their archives alongside the ones from >>> MacPorts' MPAB? >> >> They can. They just can't have them officially endorsed. > > Does putting our own archives (signed by our own keys) in a portfile's > archive_sites constitu

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-08 Thread William Siegrist
On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2011-1-8 15:25 , Rainer Müller wrote: >> In the past we discussed that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on Intel x86_64 >> would be the choice which is most common, so we would start with that. >> That was some time ago, but I guess it's still valid. W

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-08 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
>> Why can't maintainers offer their archives alongside the ones from MacPorts' >> MPAB? > > They can. They just can't have them officially endorsed. Does putting our own archives (signed by our own keys) in a portfile's archive_sites constitute endorsement? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cry

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2011-1-8 16:02 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> As another problem, if we use keys for each maintainer, how do we make sure >> none of the private keys will ever be compromised (carrying around on mobile >> devices, tiresome typing of a passphrase, etc.)? I might be a little bit >> paranoid on thi

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2011-1-8 15:25 , Rainer Müller wrote: > In the past we discussed that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on Intel x86_64 > would be the choice which is most common, so we would start with that. > That was some time ago, but I guess it's still valid. We can always add > others later. > > We do not have

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> As another problem, if we use keys for each maintainer, how do we make sure > none of the private keys will ever be compromised (carrying around on mobile > devices, tiresome typing of a passphrase, etc.)? I might be a little bit > paranoid on this, but we have to consider the weakest link her

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-07 04:39 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> I thought we decided before that we don't want individual >> maintainers distributing archives, but that we want a central >> server farm creating and distributing them? I concur with Ryan, having a central build infrastructure will be better. MPAB i

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> The best way to achieve that is by using the environment variable (or a > locally customised _resources/port1.0/fetch/archive_sites.tcl), > otherwise it won't just be people on the -dev list testing the feature. archive_mode would have to be on. At worst, all people interested in trying out the

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2011-1-8 01:42 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> >>> I thought we decided before that we don't want individual maintainers >>> distributing archives, but that we want a central server farm creating and >>> distributing them? >> >> Will the build f

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > >> I thought we decided before that we don't want individual maintainers >> distributing archives, but that we want a central server farm creating and >> distributing them? > > Will the build farm handle all supported combinations of OS and

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-06 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> I thought we decided before that we don't want individual maintainers > distributing archives, but that we want a central server farm creating and > distributing them? Will the build farm handle all supported combinations of OS and architecture? Will the distfile policy change similarly, requ

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 6, 2011, at 13:14, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > MacPorts allows us to provide package archives through archive_sites, much > like master_sites. I had previously been asked to use an environment variable > rather than make use of archive_sites, however this no longer makes much > sense to me

archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-06 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
MacPorts allows us to provide package archives through archive_sites, much like master_sites. I had previously been asked to use an environment variable rather than make use of archive_sites, however this no longer makes much sense to me: archives are stored in different files based on OS and ar