Atomic portindex

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 6, 2008, at 01:48, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I sometimes have to rebuild the PortIndex locally for testing, and
>> since it takes minutes to do that, I might want to install some port
>> while portindex is running. But this usually doesn't work because the
>> port I want to install usually has dependencies, and the portindex
>> script might not yet have gotten around to adding that port to the
>> new PortIndex.
>>
>> I think it would be nice for the portindex script to use a temporary
>> file for the new index, and only move it over the existing PortIndex
>> file when it's all through. Can anyone think of a reason why that
>> wouldn't work or wouldn't be desirable?
>
> Sounds fine to me.

Super! I filed a ticket so we don't forget:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16234


> Another nice thing to have would be a portindex
> option that just adds or updates the index entry for a given portfile,
> instead of rebuilding the whole thing.


Great idea. Filed here:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16235