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Advanced Daily Administration of MacPorts

• Audience: advanced users
• Requires: MacPorts >=1.9.2
• Author: Bjarne D Mathiesen - macintosh _at_ mathiesen _dot_ info

Introduction

This is a dump of my scripts to administer MacPorts on a daily basis.

Please append comments, questions, and suggestions here.

The Scripts

Script 1: Installation

#!/bin/bash

################################################################################
# copyright Bjarne D Mathiesen
#           København ; Danmark ; Europa
#           macintosh .at. mathiesen .dot. info
# date      04/07-2007
# revised   02/12-2007  implemented automatic patching of Portfiles
#           28/12-2009  fixed the download link
#                       modified source/build directory
#                       removed sudo from commands
#           18/06-2011  added default values for the parameters
#                       updated path values for XCode4
#
# this script is released under the BSD license
# the author welcomes feedback and improvements
# 

usage() {
cat <<EOT
purpose : to automate the whole install process
\${1} : action                 [ install (default) , paths ]
\${2} : install prefix         ( default /macports )
\${3} : macports base version  ( default 1.9.2 )
EOT
}

declare action=${1:-"install"}
declare prefix=${2:-"/macports"}
declare version=${3:-"1.9.2"}

case ${action} in
########################
# setup the system paths
'paths')

mkdir -p  /etc/paths.d
cp    -np /etc/paths /etc/paths.orig
mv    -n  /etc/paths /etc/paths.d/999macosx
touch     /etc/paths

echo "${prefix}/bin"        >  /etc/paths.d/000macports
echo "${prefix}/sbin"       >> /etc/paths.d/000macports

echo "/Developer/usr/bin"   >  /etc/paths.d/888developer
echo "/Developer/usr/sbin"  >> /etc/paths.d/888developer

mkdir -p  /etc/manpaths.d
cp    -np /etc/manpaths /etc/manpaths.orig
mv    -n  /etc/manpaths /etc/manpaths.d/999macosx
touch     /etc/manpaths

echo "${prefix}/share/man"  > /etc/manpaths.d/000macports
echo "/Developer/usr/share/man"     >  /etc/manpaths.d/888developer
echo "/Developer/usr/X11/share/man" >> /etc/manpaths.d/888developer

# path_helper is buggy under 10.5
#cp -npv /usr/libexec/path_helper /usr/libexec/path_helper.orig
#cp   -v path_helper /usr/libexec/

;;
##################
# install macports
'install')

if [ ! -e MacPorts-${version}.tar.gz ]
then
    curl -O --url "http://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-${version}.tar.gz"
fi

rm  -rf  ./MacPorts-${version}
tar -zxf   MacPorts-${version}.tar.gz

cd MacPorts-${version}
./configure LDFLAGS=-L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/X11/lib --prefix=${prefix}
make
make install

# update DarwinPorts itself
${prefix}/bin/port -d selfupdate

# let's get bash
${prefix}/bin/port install bash

;;
# default
*)
usage
esac

Script 2: Updating

#!/macports/bin/bash

#
# usage:
# ${1}: the macports install path
#

(   cd  $( dirname ${0} )

echo -e "\n"'+----------------+'
echo        '| macportsupdate |'
echo        '+----------------+'

declare installPath=${1:-'/macports'}
declare rsyncMacportsOrg='/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports'

echo    "selfupdating & syncing all repositories"
${installPath}/bin/port -d selfupdate
cp -Rv  newPorts/_resources \
        ${installPath}${rsyncMacportsOrg}

echo -e "\ncopy additional files to the ports"
for filesDir in $(find portfiles -type d -name 'files')
do
    mkdir -p ${installPath}${rsyncMacportsOrg}/${filesDir#*portfiles/}
    cp -Rv ${filesDir}/* \
           ${installPath}${rsyncMacportsOrg}/${filesDir#*portfiles/}
done

echo -e "\npatching the portfiles"
for portPatch in $(find portfiles -type f -name 'patch-Portfile')
do
    patchFile=$( sed -En -e '1,1p' ${portPatch} | tr -s "\t" " " | cut -f2 -d ' ' )
    patch -u <${portPatch} ${patchFile}
done

echo ''
${installPath}/bin/port outdated

echo -e "\nupgrading the outdated ports"
for outDated in $(${installPath}/bin/port outdated | sed -e '1,1d' | tr -s " \t" | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
do 
    ${installPath}/bin/port -cuRp upgrade ${outDated}
done


echo -e "\nremoving macport saved files"
find ${installPath} -iname *.mpsaved -delete
find ${installPath} -iname *.mp_* -delete

echo -e "\nremoving inactive ports"
${installPath}/bin/port installed | sed -e '1,1d' -e '/active/d' | xargs -n2 ${installPath}/bin/port uninstall

) ; wait

Script 3: Copying a Port

#!/macports/bin/bash

declare prefix=${2:-"/macports"}

(   cd  $( dirname ${0} )

declare -a info=( $( find "${prefix}"/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports -iname "${1}" | tr '/' ' ' ) )
declare portName=${info[$(( ${#info[@]}-1 ))]}
declare portCategory=${info[$(( ${#info[@]}-2 ))]}

mkdir -p portfiles/${portCategory}/${portName}
cp ${prefix}/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/${portCategory}/${portName}/Portfile \
   portfiles/${portCategory}'/'${portName}/'Portfile.orig'

) ; wait

Script 4: Creating a Patch for a Port

#!/macports/bin/bash

declare prefix=${1:-"/macports"}
declare rsyncMacportsOrg="/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports"

(   cd $( dirname ${0} )

declare outputFile
declare patchFile

for port in $(find portfiles -name 'Portfile')
do
    outputFile=${port%/*}/patch-${port##*/}
    rm ${outputFile} 2>/dev/null
    diff -u \
        ${prefix}${rsyncMacportsOrg}/${port#*/} \
        ${port} \
    > ${outputFile}
    echo "created patch for ${port}"
    mv ${port} ${port}.OK
done

) ; wait

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