[MacPorts] #13704: selfupdate, anything over http?

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#13704: selfupdate, anything over http?
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  Reporter:  andre.david at gmail.com  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
      Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new                                  
  Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  MacPorts base enhancements           
 Component:  base                   |     Version:  1.6.0                                
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:                                       
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Changes (by jmpp at macports.org):

 * cc: markd at macports.org, boeyms at macports.org, simon at macports.org (added)

Comment:

 `selfupdate` is composed of two rather orthogonal actions: `sync`, which
 synchronizes your ports tree with the latest revisions to the Portfiles,
 and `selfupdate` itself (so much for clarity!), which rebuilds MacPorts if
 outdated with respect to our latest release. `sync` can indeed be
 performed over `svn`, but unfortunately we currently do not provide a mean
 for the former (`selfupdate`) over anything but `rsync`. Such request
 makes up for a fine MacPorts enhancement, so I'll leave this ticket open
 to track it.

 As for `sync`, you have to do three things in order to synchronize your
 ports tree over `svn`:

  1. Pick a `/path/to/your/portsdir` onto which you'll check it out of our
 repository at `http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports`;

  2. Add an entry for that svn based ports dir to your
 `${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf` file, in the form of
 `file:///path/to/your/portsdir`;

  3. Comment out the rsync based rule that takes care of `sync`'ing over
 `rsync` (`rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/`).

 Once that's done, a "`port sync`" call will pull the new Portfiles from
 `svn` rather than `rsync`.

 Lastly, as for rebuilding MacPorts itself, you can also check out the
 `base` code out of `svn` and rebuild it with the manual `./configure &&
 make` dance; Not as handy as the "`port selfupdate`" one liner... but at
 least something ;-) You can checkout either `trunk` at
 `http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base` or any of our
 branches at `http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches` -- pick
 the
 `http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_1_6/base`
 URL if you wish to track the 1.6 set of releases, which is equivalent to
 selfupdating off the `release/base/` rsync module as per default behavior.

 Let me know if you have any questions!

 -jmpp

 PS: I think these explanations make up for good documentation
 enhancements, so I'm Cc'ing our docs guys into this ticket so they can
 have a look and cook something up for our guide ;-)

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13704#comment:2>
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