Request for help with port organisation: how to install several versions of data files

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:

> How about something like this?

> foreach {data.name data.version data.md5} ${geant.data_versions} {
> 
>    subport ${name}-${data.name}-${data.version} {
> 
>        version             ${data.version}
>        description         ${data.name} v${data.version} data files for Geant4
>        long_description    ${description}
>        distfiles           G4${data.name}.${data.version}${extract.suffix}
>        checksums           md5 ${data.md5}
>        distname            ${data.name}${data.version}
>        extract.dir         ${destroot}${prefix}/share/Geant4/Data
>        pre-extract {
> 
>            xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/Geant4/Data
>        }

It's a little weird to put stuff into ${destroot} during extract. I certainly do not expect "port extract" to create the destroot.

vq