 MacPorts, formerly known as DarwinPorts, is a variant of the BSD ports system for Darwin and Mac OS X.This page describes how to upgrade a port in MacPorts to a later version of the respective software. Case exampleIn this example, we update the portfile for gnustep-base. This is just an example. Downloading latest upstream sourceTo find out the URL where the upstream source is located, do: port cat gnustep-base Check whether a newer version is available at that download location and download it, in this case gnustep-base-1.16.3.tar.gz Calculating md5Calculate the md5 checksum of the upstream source with md5 gnustep-base-1.16.3.tar.gz MD5 (gnustep-base-1.16.3.tar.gz) = 32ae302922a0a6e14c7008a105014bba Editing the portfileCopy the portfile first so that we can create a patch later: cp $(port file gnustep-base) $(port file gnustep-base).orig port edit gnustep-base Change version to 1.16.3 Change md5 to the value calculated before Creating the patchdiff -u $(port file gnustep-base).orig $(port file gnustep-base) > gnustep-base.patch Testing the patched portfileNow build it with port rpm gnustep-base Activating the new versionIn order to activate the new version so that it is used when builting additional software, you need to do in addition: port archive gnustep-base port upgrade -n gnustep-base Finally, check that your activated version is really the new one with port installed gnustep-base Submitting the patch to MacPortsSearch whether a ticket already exists, if not submit a new one with the patch attached. |
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