selfupdate is broken

[Kevin Ballard]

Blair, when I made the change it searched PATH for svn and ran that.  
I think it was jberry who added a ./configure directive to hardcode  
the path at configuration time, however if it can't find that path I  
believe it still falls back on searching PATH for it. The only reason  
it should fail to find svn for you is if you do not, in fact, have an  
svn binary in your path.

I'm not sure what your `/usr/bin/true /tmp/svn` line was supposed to  
do. /usr/bin/true simply returns 0 and ignores arguments.

Here's a possible solution - in $prefix/etc/ports/sources.conf, we  
could have a [nosync] directive after a source to tell dportsync not  
to sync it. Would that work for you?

On May 15, 2007, at 1:36 PM, James Berry wrote:

> 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:
>
>
> 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.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
eridius at macports.org
http://www.tildesoft.com


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