My own repo of MacPorts (freezing distfiles)?

Tabitha McNerney tabithamc at gmail.com
Sat May 24 04:13:26 PDT 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> On May 20, 2008, at 09:38, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>  Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>>
>>  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.
>>
>
> But in this paragraph she's asking about frozen distfiles, not portfiles.
> Tabitha, distfiles are downloaded directly from the various projects' web
> sites. No rsync or Subversion is involved. The URLs from which the distfiles
> are fetched are coded into each portfile. Some ports use fetch groups, which
> are defined in the MacPorts base source. All ports use the MacPorts
> Subversion repository as a fallback; this is coded in the MacPorts base
> source too. You could either rewrite the fetch code in MacPorts base to
> fetch everything from your favorite URL(s) and distribute a custom version
> of MacPorts to your users, or you could pre-fetch the distfiles by any means
> you like and manually (or automatically via a script you would write) place
> them in the right places within /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles. MacPorts
> will use existing distfiles if they are present and correct.
>
> William Siegrist also recently announced the opening of http://
> distfiles.macports.org/ where distfiles from (some? all? most?) ports will
> be (permanently?) archived. MacPorts does not yet make use of this source,
> but probably will in the future. If your reason for wanting to host your own
> distfiles is a concern over old distfiles becoming unavailable, then
> distfiles.macports.org should be the answer.


Ryan, thanks for pointing out William Siegrist's distfiles.macports.org --
that's precisely what I'd like to make use of!

Thanks,

T.M.


>
>
>
> The way in which svn and rsync are bridged, for the portfiles collection,
> is that a script runs on the rsync server which updates the rsync server
> with the content from the Subversion repository. This occurs every 30
> minutes.
>
>
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