My own repo of MacPorts (freezing distfiles)?

[Rainer Müller]

Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> I was wondering -- if I wanted to have my own repository of MacPorts 
> (e.g., if I want to freeze each port's version so that I can build ports 
> systems on many machines and they'll all have the same ports versions), 
> can I do so by  simply by editing:
> 
>     /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> 
> 
> and changing this line in sources.conf:
> 
>     rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
>     <http://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/>
> 
> 
> to my own rsync server?

Yes, you can use rsync://, file://, http:// or mports:// here.

> And also changing:
> 
>     /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf
> 
> 
> this line:
> 
>     # Rsync server to fetch MacPorts sources from
> 
>     rsync_server            rsync.macports.org <http://rsync.macports.org>

This setting is used for selfupdate only. So if you don't want your 
clients to update to another versions, use your own rsync server which 
got the version you want to be used.

> What if I wanted to place a bunch of "frozen" versioned distfiles on my 
> server but instead of running rsync, it was just subversion instead? How 
> does MacPorts currently bridge between the rsync protocol and svn?

You can use a file:/// path in sources.conf pointing to a svn checkout. 
If a file:/// path contains an .svn directory, 'port sync' will use svn 
to sync it.

Rainer