PortGroups Pre-Deactivate Phase

Dan Ports dports at macports.org
Sat Jan 22 16:18:11 PST 2011


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:03:30PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Since MacPorts has no mechanism to alert users to switch to the sqlite registry, many are still using the flat registry, so it wouldn't work for them. I don't know if the use of the pre-deactivate phase needs to be bracketed with a check for the registry type, or whether MacPorts handles that properly internally.

It'll silently get ignored.


Looking at the portgroups in question, having the pre-deactivate phase
working for some (most?) people appears to be strictly better than
having it work for no one...

Dan

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