MacPorts 1.9 and portindex generation

[Eric Hall]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:07:28PM +1000, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-6-7 07:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > Before we release 1.9.0 we should probably resolve this situation, which seems to be a step backward from 1.8.2 behavior:
> > 
> > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25156
> > 
> > If MacPorts 1.9.0-rc2 is installed on a machine without Xcode installed, the portindex will be missing some ports. (With 1.8.2 a correct full portindex is downloaded; 1.9 attempts to generate it itself and doesn't totally succeed if Xcode isn't there.)
> 
> It will download a full PortIndex from rsync when there isn't a local
> one (as soon as we put the platform specific indices on the server). But
> whatever, this will probably take less time to fix than it took to file
> the ticket.
> 

	What about for those who up their ports via svn?  Will the platform
specific indexes be checked in, or do we need to add a portindex build
step to our workflows?


		-eric