MacPorts 1.9 and portindex generation

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-6-7 07:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Before we release 1.9.0 we should probably resolve this situation, which seems to be a step backward from 1.8.2 behavior:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25156
> 
> If MacPorts 1.9.0-rc2 is installed on a machine without Xcode installed, the portindex will be missing some ports. (With 1.8.2 a correct full portindex is downloaded; 1.9 attempts to generate it itself and doesn't totally succeed if Xcode isn't there.)

It will download a full PortIndex from rsync when there isn't a local
one (as soon as we put the platform specific indices on the server). But
whatever, this will probably take less time to fix than it took to file
the ticket.

- Josh