request for port create command, to build a portfile from a URL

Enrico Maria Crisostomo enrico.m.crisostomo at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 18:16:47 UTC 2018


Thanks Ryan for the explanation.

> On 7 Mar 2018, at 19:51, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mar 7, 2018, at 07:32, Rainer Müller wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-03-07 11:32, Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote:
>>> This is a little bit offtopic IMHO, anyway: I found surprising too that
>>> the github portgroup was not documented, given the high percentage of
>>> software that I build out of github repositories, and that's why I
>>> recently contributed the documentation of the github portgroup:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/pull/12
>>> 
>>> It has been merged some days ago. Yet, I don't see it online yet.
>> 
>> That is because we still have not any automatic deployment on
>> build.macports.org for any of our websites. I am irregularly running
>> these jobs from my local buildbot setup on my personal MacBook every few
>> weeks, which is the only reason they are not completely outdated.
>> 
>> I triggered another run of these jobs, so these changes should be
>> available shortly online.
> 
> We now have one of the new "jobs" running on the buildbot, so hopefully adding the others will be easy.
> 



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