[PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

James Berry jberry at macports.org
Tue Sep 30 20:04:19 PDT 2008


Adam,

Thanks for the patch. This looks good to me. Does anybody have a use  
case where inheritance is not the right thing here?

James

On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Adam Byrtek wrote:

> 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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