Help to develop some python package ports

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-8-3 08:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Aug 2, 2013, at 17:41, Sterling Smith wrote:
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>> When I developed a lone Portfile, port install seemed to try to go off and look for the default python version of the port.  For instance, I just submitted https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39968 for a py-fortranformat port, but when I tried `port install` in the directory with the Portfile, it went off to look for py27-fortranformat, because I had specified py-fortranformat as the name in the Portfile.  By changing the name in the Portfile to py27-fortranformat, I was able to install into MacPorts.
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> You shouldn't need to change the port name. To install a subport of a port that's not yet in the index, specify the subport name on the command line like this:
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> (in the py-fortranformat directory:)
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> sudo port install subport=py27-fortranformat

Alternatively, you can index it locally as per
<http://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html>.

- Josh