New port needs commit

[Luis O'Shea]

>> After the commit, I uninstalled asymptote, removed the reference  
>> to my local port hierarchy from sources.conf, and did a selfupdate.
>
>
> 	Why did you do that? What did the entry that you removed look  
> like, and what lead you to the conclusion that you needed to remove  
> it in the first place?

My goal was to verify that the new asymptote Portfile functioned  
correctly.  While I was developing the Portfile my sources.conf  
looked like

file:///Users/luis/macports/ports
rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/

I assume that while the "file:///..." line precedes the  
"rsync:///...", port will pickup my copy of the Portfile rather than  
the newly committed one.  So I removed the first line and did a  
selfupdate.

Two questions:
  - What is the best description of the ports referenced by  
"file:///..."?  I called it "my local port hierarchy", but I now  
think this might be confusing.  (It might mean my *copy* of "rsync:// 
rsync.macports...".)
  - After developing a new Portfile, what is the best way to pick up  
the newly committed Portfile?  Should I leave sources.conf as is,  
delete my Portfile (the one under "file:///...") and re-portindex?

See below for the source of my thick-headedness.

>
>> However port seemed to not find the new asymptote port:
>>
>> % port info asymptote
>> Error: Port asymptote not found
>>
>> But ${prefix}/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ 
>> ports/graphics/asymptote/Portfile does exist.  I tried deleting $ 
>> {prefix}/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ 
>> PortIndex and doing another selfupdate, but that did not help.
>
>
> 	Entries in sources.conf point MacPorts to a valid PortIndex file,  
> from which ports and their info are gathered; if there are no  
> entries in sources.conf, no PortIndex will be found (regardless of  
> the file(s) actually existing on the local filesystem). In the case  
> of a stock MacPorts intallation, the rsync://rsync.macports.org/ 
> release/ports/ URL is the only entry in the souces.conf file, and  
> it gets mapped locally to ${prefix}/var/macports/sources/ 
> rsync.macports.org/release/ports/PortIndex as you infer.  
> Nevertheless, again, if you remove the entry from sources.conf the  
> corresponding index will not be found by MacPorts.
>
> 	I'm curious as to what lead you to believe you needed to remove  
> the entry, in case it's something in our documentation that's  
> misleading you. In any case, the only thing you need to update your  
> local ports tree and get fresh search results is put the entry back  
> and issue a "selfupdate" regularly, plain and simple.

Duh!  PortIndex is under version control -- I thought it was  
generated locally after a sync.

Thanks!

Luis