selfupdate is broken

[James Berry]

Hi Blair,

Kevin Ballard (Eridius) made this change. I know he's been thinking  
about it and trying to make it work better, but I'd suggest you enter  
a dialogue with him, which could end in the "feature" being pulled or  
in being made to work to your (and others) satisfaction.

James.

On May 15, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> James Berry wrote:
>> On May 10, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> It seems that selfupdate got broken:
>>>
>>> prunille:~> sudo port -d selfupdate
>>> DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.
>>> Synchronizing from file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports
>>> DEBUG: /opt/local/bin/svn update --non-interactive "/Users/vinc17/ 
>>> wd/macosx/dports"
>>>
>>> It shouldn't update *my* SVN working copy. It was previously  
>>> updating
>>> the standard path (?) with rsync. I suppose that it takes the paths
>>> from /opt/local/etc/ports/sources.conf, which contains here:
>>>
>>> file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports
>>> file:///Users/vinc17/software/dports
>>> rsync://rsync.macports.org/dpupdate/dports
>>>
>>> But I use this for port installation only.
>> As Ryan points out, this was a change in 1.4.40. Clearly whoever  
>> made the change did not anticipate the problem you're having with  
>> it. We'd love to hear your suggestions for what the proper  
>> behavior should be in this case. What if the behavior was:
>>     - Update the first sources.conf directory found that either  
>> (1) is an rsync url, or (2) is a valid svn repository.
>> Would that rule fix things for you?
>> James
>
> And it also doesn't work if you have a MacPorts install with  
> everything deactivated, which I do so I can commit the binary build  
> into a Subversion repository (for checking out on many Mac's).
>
> $ port -d -v selfupdate
> DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.
> Synchronizing from file:///net/homedirs/blair/Code/MacPorts/dports-spi
> Synchronizing from file:///net/homedirs/blair/Code/MacPorts/dports- 
> macports.org
> DEBUG: Couldn't sync dports tree: svn command not found
>     while executing
> "darwinports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync dports  
> tree: svn command not found
>
> Even trying to hack it by doing this fails:
>
> $ /usr/bin/true /tmp/svn
> $ PATH=/tmp:$PATH port -d -v selfupdate
>
> Who made these changes?
>
> I don't see anybody working on this.  Can we back out those commits  
> that did this until it's working fine and reach a consensus on what  
> its supposed to do, or even if we want it.
>
> Thanks,
> Blair
>