breakage from r99712

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Nov 17 12:13:51 PST 2012


On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:48, Jack Howarth wrote:

> It should have at the very least
> converted the corefoundation variant into a no-corefoundation variant

We do not use variants whose names begin with "no" anymore. We did that before MacPorts 2.0, because the old flat registry could only remember enabled variants, not disabled variants. But the new sqlite registry, which is the only registry format used with MacPorts 2.0 and later, remembers both. Any variants you find that are still named with a "no" prefix are relics and should be renamed / converted.

From the user's perspective, instead of enabling a no_foo variant:

sudo port install example +no_foo

They should disable a foo variant:

sudo port install example -foo




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