Lingon Portfile Update

[Altoine Barker]

Well, let us say there is a new feature or security fix available on svn or
cvs. You will have to wait until someone provides a package installer update
before reaping the benefits. A real world example of this scenario would be
mplayer. The mplayer package installer is always made last of all the
updates. HTH

-Altoine

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:

> I am just curious, where is the value in a portfile for Lingon?  There is a
> easy to use binary installer for this that supports every OS version you
> could need.
>
> Not trying at all to diminish the value of ports, I am literally trying to
> understand what, perhaps, I am missing out on here by using port to manage
> as many apps as I can, even ones with clear Mac OS X style installers that
> are GUI driven.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Nov 16, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Altoine Barker wrote:
>
>  I noticed that Lingon in MacPorts was outdated version (2.0.2), so I
>> changed the Portfile to reflect the new version (2.1) and the md5 checksum
>> for the source (648c4ef122253110d28a950949c5d570). I tested the modified
>> Portfile and it works. I manually changed the date and time of the portfile
>> and here is what my Portfile contains:
>>
>
> --
> Scott
>
>
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