An easy to correct error in the install from sources documentation

[AbcMediumRepo]

Hello everybody,

Thank you all for your great software! I found a little error in the install documentation, in ​https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source I had rebuild the sources from a git clone, so I need to change /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf

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3. (Optional) Configure MacPorts to use port information from Git

This step is useful if you want to do port development. Check out the ports tree from git:

$ cd /opt/mports
$ git clone https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git

Then open /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf in a text editor. The last line should look like this:

rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar [default]

Change it to point to the working copy you checked out:

file:///opt/mports/macports-ports [default]

Now MacPorts will look for portfiles in the working copy and use Git instead of rsync to update your ports tree.

file:///opt/mports/macports-ports [default] is wrong because the line up have been changed, I suppose. The right content for this /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf is, at the end of the file: file:///opt/mports/macports-base/ [default]

macports-base is good, macports-ports was wrong for me.

Hope it helps,

Best regards,

Tristan Guez

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I don't see how your suggestion could be correct. The documentation is correct as written. sources.conf must point to the place where your ports tree is, such as a clone of macports-ports. It makes no sense to point it at a clone of macports-base.