CafePorts

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Tue Dec 15 08:59:46 PST 2009


On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:12, Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:
>
>> I think now it has started to look like a proper Mac application.
>> Although some things need to be worked on again, I'd really like to  
>> hear what do you think of this effort.
>> Now it's usable I think and I need your feedback to go on.
>
> It still needs to support other locations for the ports tree.

This is one of the issues I just filed.

> Read the file ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf to see where the  
> user has his ports tree(s). You probably only need to concern  
> yourself with the default tree.

I tend to agree because the target audience for CafePorts is probably  
not people modifying sources.conf. But then again it would be nice to  
have a warning if sources.conf has been modified.

> Most users will have "rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/  
> [default]" in this file, which corresponds to the location on disk  
> you're trying to read now. But I have "file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports 
>  [default]" in my sources.conf to indicate that my ports tree is  
> elsewhere.


Is there a way to get a list of PortIndex files and the order they are  
parsed from the port command?


// Brad
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