Easy access to external repositories.

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

----- On 15 Jun, 2015, at 14:38, Artur Szostak aszostak at partner.eso.org wrote:

> To summarise:
> - If I am not mistaken in my interpretation of the previous email exchange,
> there appear to be use cases for allowing easy addition and removal of external
> repositories. (This is irrespective of whether I can move my Portfiles over to
> the standard repository.)
> - There is no existing standard mechanism for this in MacPorts.
> - There is a little bit of support for using the solution indicated in ticket
> 46954. Though this approach is considered somewhat hackish.
> - We have some agreement that a cleaner approach would be to have something like
> a /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf.d/ path where additional repository
> configuration files could be added or removed, rather than modifying the master
> config file directly. Though there is some concern for handling the
> prioritisation.
> - A long term goal for a generic solution may come with using libsolv for
> dealing with prioritisation.

That is an accurate summary of the situation.


> So what should be done about ticket 46954?
> Should it be dropped? Accepted?

I would favor accepting it, and unless somebody objects I'm planning to commit
this soon.

> or should the
> /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf.d/ directory option be implemented first
> and then 46954 adjusted to the new scheme?
> If the consensus is the latter, then what would be the timeframe for such an
> update to MacPorts?

The timeframe on this would be at least a couple of months, which leads me to
believe this is not a viable option for now. We should still do it and
eventually move the port to this scheme (or provide a command to achieve the
same thing).

-- 
Clemens Lang