running macports along with homebrew

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 6, 2018, at 04:00, db wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2018, at 10:49, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> The portindex indexes Portfiles, not portgroups. So the port's version must be set in the Portfile, not anywhere else.
> 
> Would then portindex fail if the port's version in the portfile is a variable set to a command?

No, but if the modification date/time of the Portfile has not changed, the portindex will not index it.