Ticket #19458 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Combine image and archive modes
| Reported by: | blb@… | Owned by: | blb@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | MacPorts 2.0.0 |
| Component: | base | Version: | 1.8.0 |
| Keywords: | archive image | Cc: | nox@…, snc@… |
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Description
Combining the image and archive modes into a new image-through-archives and always enabling it buys several advantages:
- no more need to worry about links for image mode as all inactive ports would simply exist in the archive instead of being fully installed in ${prefix}/var/macports/software
- configuration settings for these (portinstalltype, portarchivemode, portarchivepath, and portarchivetype) can be removed simplifying code and macports.conf
- always building/using archives should bring MacPorts closer to supporting install-from-binaries instead of just from source
- removal of archive-specific targets/actions (since they'd be merged into the activate area) simplifies MacPorts base code
I'll create a branch for development to keep this off of trunk until it is ready for more widespread testing.
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