ignore "portfile changed" ?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sun Sep 17 14:41:45 UTC 2017


On 2017-09-17 16:35, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> when working on the destrooting of complex ports it is tedious to have the ports rebuild with each portfile edit, esp the big ports that need the complex destrooting....
> 
> It must be possible to override this -- I feel I'm missing something simple somewhere. I hope this detail is not just buried in the guide somewhere that I missed.

You are looking for the port -o option. You most likely want to delete
the work/destroot directory first.

This is indeed a bit hidden in documentation. It is listed in the man
page, but there are no examples or use cases.

Rainer


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