[PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

Adam Byrtek adambyrtek at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 12:03:05 PDT 2008


There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I
decided to try again. Could one of the MacPorts maintainers take a
look at the patch, please? This is actually quite a trivial change
that will make the user configuration much more convenient.

Best regards
Adam Byrtek


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Adam Byrtek <adambyrtek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've made a tweak in handling of macports.conf configuration file, now
> the global file defines defaults and user configuration can just
> override parts of it. More information can be found in this thread on
> macports-users:
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-August/011273.html
>
> The actual patch is available here:
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16329
>
> A similar problem had been raised on this list a year ago, bus as far
> as I know didn't result in a patch:
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-April/001373.html
>
> I'm looking forward for reviewing and applying the patch if you find it valid.
>
> Best regards,
> Adam Byrtek
>


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