Backport bugfixes to release-2.4 for next release

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Ryan mentioned a number of changes that should be backported to release-2.4 for the next bugfix release.

Reinplace quietly when clearing dependency_libs in .la files ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/49a0c6f5a6088b4f7ecd0137b18d10a56f30694d

Fix case-only renames with no arguments ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/acc1e62d8560609652977e563734f805c41244cf

Fix incorrect portindex usage message ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/1c7c8b21c42962e9761aeb97844aa91f320eee47

Remove clang-3.8 from compiler fallback list on El Capitan and older ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c4107fcd483646853321027af2e123aa0e70a1ce

Fix error when sw_vers fails ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/adf078d0e0626b831463dea740bfe4f008142cda

Fix typos in manpages ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/38fe236f3f830a79c39e50526a20a32b2345d6dc

Update macOS version checks ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/3ba09e0620be7a8e77e1b84da03309b09d98e902

Update Xcode version checks ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/5f6bd08834d4f6cab011e068f192b965993edc30

Error when port opened with nonexistent subport ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/9c48520c7347a84af603ed35ed27a96a42d57838

Fix leaving orphaned Portfiles in registry ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/6c8c70b370753b9015400b27afdcd303b7a0cb63

Ignore case in livecheck regexps ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/0310feb5f4c3858e067e3500936f6fa099c78803

Fix typo in warning message ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/677dda56cbf3fc310b96a2fc1b54ee7c85ce5375

Add /dev/{u,}random to sandbox ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c8c1565f42a60c2b9e85a204603a66052f444c43

sandbox: Allow file-write-data for /var/db/mds ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/1f76522228abba0d8383071b059daff726a8c9f6

Close the portfiles after reading ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c2df3cc958635f7ac6d0983288723c6ea097b221

Trace mode broken on High Sierra #55575

Go through this list and backport all relevant changes. Do not forget to update the milestone field of any tickets associated with these changes to MacPorts 2.4.3.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

I went through the list and will push the backported changes to release-2.4.

These did not apply for the reasons given:

Fix typo in warning message ​​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/677dda56cbf3fc310b96a2fc1b54ee7c85ce5375

This message does not exist in this form in the release-2.4 branch.

Close the portfiles after reading ​​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c2df3cc958635f7ac6d0983288723c6ea097b221

Was already released with 2.4.2, [ca215c1500181ce7942476d439780a9a155499e4/macports-base].

Note sure about this one:

Ignore case in livecheck regexps ​​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/0310feb5f4c3858e067e3500936f6fa099c78803

Should we really introduce such a change in behavior in a patch release?

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

In 6782b97dbb9fadf399c52d11dd455a94642aa5f4/macports-base:

ChangeLog: Update for backports to release-2.4

See: #56018

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

In 6a3a0ed11e55f8d5c1b2f7d349a77230e6f74293/macports-base:

ChangeLog: Update for backports to release-2.4

See: #56018
(cherry picked from commit 6782b97dbb9fadf399c52d11dd455a94642aa5f4)

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Replying to raimue:

Not sure about this one:

Ignore case in livecheck regexps ​​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/0310feb5f4c3858e067e3500936f6fa099c78803

Should we really introduce such a change in behavior in a patch release?

It's not a big change, and most people probably didn't expect the regexes to be case-sensitive anyway, but I agree it's a change of behavior. We could leave it out, but it's probably not harmful to cherry-pick it either.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I would backport support for cargo from d1271bcdd3 as well.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Replying to mojca:

I would backport support for cargo from d1271bcdd3 as well.

This has been reverted on master as it did not work as intended.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

In b3fdb86dfc5cecf87933718e96f8792290e2f0ed/macports-base:

ChangeLog: Update for backport to 2.4

See: #56018
(cherry picked from commit 6a2c538e124314826bbbb6bdb301639e4657bcfb)

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

In 6a2c538e124314826bbbb6bdb301639e4657bcfb/macports-base:

ChangeLog: Update for backport to 2.4

See: #56018

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Everything has been merged for 2.4.3.