source-less packaging?

[Jack Howarth]

Joshua.
     I just added a ticket with proposed packaging for adding the
xvfb-run script to MacPorts.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46842

FInk mirrors the xorg-server_1.4.2-10.lenny4.debian-only-changes.diff
patch. This one was originally obtained from...

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/debianonly/dl/xorg-server/2:%v-10.lenny4/debian-dir%20only%20changes

but Debian's patch-tracker server has been non-functional for years
now. The other patch, xvfb-run.diff, they store as packaging patch.
Note that this packaging is currently lacks a depends_run on the
missing xvfb subport of xorg-server to make it functional.
                  Jack

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> On 2015-2-13 12:16 , Jack Howarth wrote:
>>     Is it possible to suppress the need for a source file a Portfile?
>> The fink packaging uses...
>>
>> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/debianonly/dl/xorg-server/2:%v-10.lenny4/debian-dir%%20only%%20changes
>>
>> as the Source file. Unfortunately the debian patch tracker server has
>> been down for years and fink has just been using copies cached on
>> their mirrors.
>>      Since I have a copy of this file from their mirrors, I was hoping
>> that I could craft a Portfile with no source but only a set of patches
>> in the files directory. Is this possible? If not, what is the
>> recommended solution when the original source url is dead upstream?
>>                   Jack
>
> You can clear distfiles. I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do,
> but it's fine to fetch from the fink mirrors. If they're literally just
> patches that apply to an empty dir, you could set patch_sites and
> patchfiles. No need to store them in the ports tree.
>
> - Josh