#13509: Support .dmg disk images as distfiles with new use_dmg option --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@macports.org | Owner: ryandesign@macports.org Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: MacPorts base enhancements Component: base | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by ryandesign@macports.org): Bear in mind that my knowledge of Tcl and MacPorts base is still very limited, so I don't know how to wrap what I've done in a Mac OS X platform test. Is there existing code in other parts of base that I could look at? I think it would be ok to commit the functionality now, and add support for non-Mac platforms--or beautify the error messages on those platforms-- later. I wouldn't expect dmg-based extraction to be used on platforms other than Mac OS X anyway, since dmg is a Mac OS X format. Or rather, I wouldn't expect developers to distribute things on a dmg unless they intended it to be used exclusively on Mac OS X. To that end, I would expect any port using dmg-based extraction to declare only "`platforms macosx`", and I would further expect MacPorts to prevent installation of the port on platforms that are not macosx. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13509#comment:2> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS