New port needs commit

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Sun Jan 13 17:07:45 PST 2008


Rainer Müller wrote:
> Luis O'Shea wrote:
>> After the commit, I uninstalled asymptote, removed the reference to my 
>> local port hierarchy from sources.conf, and did a selfupdate.  However 
>> port seemed to not find the new asymptote port:
>>
>> % port info asymptote
>> Error: Port asymptote not found
> 
> The PortIndex is regenerated and committed every 12 hours. Your port is 
> in the repository, but hasn't made it into PortIndex at that time. As 
> port info takes all infos from the PortIndex, it could not be found.

By the way, one can cd into your 
${prefix}/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports and run 
portindex by hand to update the index.

Blair

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