Why are my por definitions still out of date after this?

[Christopher Jones]

Have you told macports to use your git clone ?

i.e. 

 > cat /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
<snip>
#rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar [default]
file:///Users/chris/Projects/MacPorts/ports [default]

where for me /Users/chris/Projects/MacPorts/ports is my local git clone.

b.t.w. Once you have done this, you don’t need to run all the git commands below. just running

> sudo port sync

will update your git clone, and run the portindex, for you.

Chris

> On 22 Feb 2020, at 11:43 am, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> 
> I have my own fork of the macports-ports repository on GitHub so I can do maintenance. I have a local clone of that fork
> 
> When I want to update ports I do not maintain, do the following. First I make sure my clone is up to date with the upstream original, then I push the clone back to my GitHub fork. Then I run portindex. ‘upstream’ is the official repo, origin is my fork
> git fetch upstream
> git checkout master
> git reset --hard upstream/master
> git push origin master --force
> portindex
>  
> But when I do that, I still get:
> 
> albus:macports-ports sysbh$ port list updated
> Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'.
> 
> (Should have said ‘outdated’ of course, this doesn’t give me a warning)
> 
> But port self update overwrites everything using rsync and doesn’t go via git. So, it is a parallel and possibly trouble-creating route. I want update my local tree entirely via git.
> 
> Still, with a clean clone of of an up-to-date fork, I can do it:
> 
> sudo port selfupdate
> Password:
> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
> MacPorts base version 2.6.2 installed,
> MacPorts base version 2.6.2 downloaded.
> --->  Updating the ports tree
> --->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
> 
> What is the way to go when updating, using your own clone of your own fork of the git repo?
> 
> G

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