questions about writing Portfile

[Craig Treleaven]

At 10:43 AM -0500 2/28/14, Julien T wrote:
>- there is a startupitem option but it does not seem any way to 
>include a cron-like job through launchd? script/exec to launch every 
>day/month. So I suppose for now, we include our own file.

I won't try to handle all your questions!  ;)

launchd handles periodic execution on OS X.  The logrotate port can 
install a launchd plist that causes it to run at 5:30 each morning. 
See:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/logrotate/Portfile
https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/logrotate/files/org.macports.logrotate.plist.example

Craig