subports

[Mark Brethen]

On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Jan 3, 2012, at 23:48, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Jan 3, 2012, at 23:18, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
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>>>>> I tried the portfile I posted earlier (using a subport). It works, but unless I'm doing something wrong, you have to fetch the source twice to install both. Any way around that?
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>>>>> Please look at the portfile and let me know if it's ready for submission.
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>>>> You can set the distdir to be the same, rather than being the name of each port. Simply pick one and set it in the other to match.
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>>> The default dist_subdir is ${name} so it should already work correctly; all subports should share the same dist_subdir. Why do you think they don't?
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>> I issued 'sudo port destroot reduce subport=reduce-fetch-psl' and it only built the psl system. If I issue the port install command, it will clean everything
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> It will clean the work directory.
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>> and will have to fetch the distfiles again to install csl.
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> No; it will not have cleaned the distfiles. If you want the distfiles cleaned you have to do it explicitly with
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> sudo port clean --dist reduce
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> or
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> sudo port clean --all reduce
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As far as I know svn downloads to the work directory. MacPorts doesn't save it, does it?