Documentation on Portfiles

[Paul Bates [ES]]

Simon, thanks for the docs that's exactly what I was looking for.

Paul.

Simon Ruderich wrote:
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> Paul Bates [ES] wrote:
>> This has probably been asked before, but where can I find the 
>> documentation on authoring Portfiles? A quick search pulls up the 
>> legacy opendarwin.org site references but it either no longer is 
>> available or is down.
>>
>> I've got most of it down by looking at other Portfiles but I want a 
>> good understanding.
>>
>> Paul.
> 
> You can find the [sources][1] in the subversion repository, but I don't
> know if there is a html version at the moment. An improved macports
> homepage is still in work.
> 
> So I generated a html file from the docbook sources and uploaded it at
> my [homepage][2] (filesize 200KiB). The documentation is a bit out of
> date because of the move from opendarwin.org to macports.org, so the
> links are still pointing to opendarwin.org but the content you search is
> there.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Simon
> 
> [1]: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/doc
> [2]: http://ruderich.com/macports.html
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