Install from HEAD instead current stable version?

[Rainer M Krug]

Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:10:33AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> So then I would have to install grass as usual via
>> ,----
>> | port install grass
>> `----
>
> Yes.
>
>> and then upgrade it and specify to use HEAD to fetch - how can I do
>> this?
>
> MacPorts has no way to do this from the command line like homebrew does.
> You need to have a Portfile that explicitly specifies what to download
> (where you can put in git HEAD, if you want).
>
> Since such a Portfile will not be accepted into the main port tree, you
> need to have a local portfile repository (as described in [1]), where
> you can put this modified Portfile for MacPorts to pick up.
>
> The guide also has all the information on how to fetch from git [2].
>
> [1] https://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories
> [2] https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases.fetch.git

OK - understood. 

Thanks a lot,

Rainer
>
> HTH,


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