GitHub Downloads and the github portgroup

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mar 29, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Ben Smith <ben at wbpsystems.com> wrote:

> I've updated my portfile (attached) for EGSimulation, however I can't
> seem to test it with the local repository; I'm able to index my local
> repository (and it succeeds) but when I search or install I grab the
> file from the default/public repository.  Does someone have a good
> method of testing portfiles when you are updating existing ports? (and
> I can't remove the default url entirely because I'm using portgroups
> -- which it then can't find)

Does the macports user (or equivalent, if you've changed it) have read access to your local repository?


> Secondly, I've never fully understood livecheck system.  Am I correct
> in understanding that somehow the livecheck system when it encounters
> a number  in regex that it knows to only look for numbers greater than
> the current version number?

You can see what the livecheck is doing by using "port -d livecheck". If you're using a regex livecheck, it compares "livecheck.version" (which defaults to the value of "version") to the first capture of each match, using "vercmp".

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