How to recover from wrong port naming at time of 1st commit?

Marko Käning MK-MacPorts at techno.ms
Thu Dec 11 00:04:33 PST 2014


Hi Josh,

On 11 Dec 2014, at 08:56 , Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> It's perfectly safe, it just doesn't give users who installed it under
> the old name an automated update path. (I assume you would edit the
> portfile to change the name between the move and the commit.)

the Portfile contains the required name already, which lead to failure at the buildbots!

Well, as this is a new port, perhaps it is safe enough to simply “svn mv” it?!

Greets,
Marko


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