Ports tree setup for development

[Christopher Jones]

Hi,

I have a complete clone of the port tree, but just under my regular user account.

Oberon ~/Projects/MacPorts/ports > git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

then, in your macports sources.conf, just point it at this area as your new default.

> tail -4 /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
# If an rsync URL points to a .tar file, a signed .rmd160 must exist next to
# it on the server and will be used to verify its integrity.
#rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar [default]
file:///Users/chris/Projects/MacPorts/ports [default]

thats it. everything is automatic after that. ‘sudo port sync’ updates that area, as your regular user.

Regarding the git slowness though, no, I do not see anything like that. You are going to have to provide more details on what exactly you mean.

Chris

> On 6 Sep 2018, at 8:31 pm, Bruce Johnson <bruce.johnson289 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just wondering how people have their ports tree set up for development?
> 
> I ask because I had cloned the macports-ports repo to:
> 
>     /opt/local/var/macports/sources/github.com/macports/macports-ports <http://github.com/macports/macports-ports>
> 
> then ran `sudo port selfupdate` and all the files then changed ownership to root. D'oh! After chowning the entire ports tree back to my user, I then figured I could use `port sync` to only update the ports tree and retain ownership, which worked well :-)
> 
> My remaining qualm is that git interactions are quite slow, which is probably just a function of the repo size, and therefore difficult to do anything about.
> 
> Would be good to hear how others are setup and whether you have any tips.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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