MacPorts adding "default" flag to sources.conf

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Mar 24 03:18:52 PDT 2016


On 2016-03-24 08:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> That's some broken logic in the upgrade script. It always adds [default]
>> to the first entry that points to the official ports tree if no entry
>> before had this flag. We would need multiple passes over the lines to
>> first check whether [default] exists already.
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/upgrade_sources_conf_default.tcl.in
>>
>> Since it has been 7 years after the introduction of this flag, may I
>> suggest we just remove it instead of rewriting this script?
> 
> You mean, remove the upgrade script? On the assumption that everyone has already upgraded and already has a default set at this point? Sure.

Sorry that was ambiguous. Yes, I mean removing the upgrade script.

Rainer


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