Creating a portfile for Unicode Character Database

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 17, 2013, at 14:51, Johan Mattsson wrote:

> <Portfile>


"revision 0" is the default; you can omit that.

Instead of setting distfile to empty, please use "extract.mkdir yes".

Because the distfile name does not contain the version number, follow this recipe: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#unversioned-distfiles which includes setting dist_subdir to include the version number and picking a download URL that includes the version number.

Since the port doesn't appear to compile or install any architecture-specific files, you need "supported_archs noarch".

See attached revised Portfile for all these changes. It installs fine for me; I don't see the error you mentioned.


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Also, changes I did not yet make:

Each whitespace-delimited word in the license field is a license. You've used the license field as if it was a description of some kind. You need to find a single word or abbreviation that identifies this license. If any other software in MacPorts is also under this license, you could look to see what that port has used.

The livecheck doesn't work.