Automatic Port

[Chris Rees]

On 6 September 2012 14:33, Bryan Drewery <bryan at shatow.net> wrote:
> On 9/5/2012 11:57 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm considering a -devel port which checks out from our upline's VCS repo,
>> also generating a dynamic plist. I'm sure this is possible. Are there any
>> examples of this?
>>
>>
>
> AFAIK it had only been done with 1 port, and that has been reverted due
> to not having a known distinfo.
>
> The preferred way is to just do snapshot updates. That way the user is
> alerted to new versions. Otherwise they are sitting on this "9999"
> version forever until they *force* reinstall to get an upgrade.
>

Hm, however, you could make a target to just update to latest snapshot.

http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/Makefile-snippet (imperfect,
but you should get the idea).

Best case scenario, make nextsnap && port test && svn commit ;)

Chris