binary rpm repos?

[Anders F Björklund]

  Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> The dependency does not need to be in the package, it is already in  
> the
> Portfiles.

Actually, it does... But currently it just includes the
entire Portfile into the archive, which is rather hacky.

Or at least it would be nice to not require a Tcl parser
in order to read the package metadata, don't you think ?

> The only missing link is that port does not download those packages,
> but it should not be more difficult than what 'port mirror' does for
> distfiles! Well obviously, there is another gap: those packages
> don't get uploaded anywhere at the moment, but you should feel free to
> share your packages.

Sure it does, with a patch. :-)

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8571 (3 years ago)
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/10919  (2 years)

It just hasn't been added yet...


One problem with the current system is that the archives
are sorted by OS and Arch, but not including OS version.
That is, the binaries for Tiger and Leopard would go to
the same file path - unless having a platform variant...

It also needs digests (e.g. SHA) and signatures (e.g GPG)
as well as better metadata, however those are achieved ?
You should take this up on MacPorts Dev, if you want to
improve it. It's still stalling on the build logs, I think.

--anders