Add Portfile for European Southern Observatory (ESO) software repository

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

I would like to request that the attached Portfile be considered for inclusion into the MacPorts Portfile tree. The port provides an easy mechanism to gain access to the ESO software repository.

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

Portfile for the ESO software repository.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This is highly unusual...

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

But nonetheless interesting…

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Cc Me!

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

This solution would be on the same lines as to how it works for the EPEL repository for Fedora:

sudo yum install epel-release

i.e. my submission proposes to use a Portfile to easily setup a MacPorts repository of Portfiles. Compare this to the EPEL example: use a RPM to setup a YUM repository of RPMs.

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

Updated version with all fields set for archive_sites.conf

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

I realised that I should have set the fields like prefix, applications_dir and frameworks_dir in archive_sites.conf. This is now done in the updated Portfile.

[petrrr]

Cc Me!

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

Any news? Does this Portfile get the thumbs up or thumbs down?

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

We should discuss this on macports-dev, but I don't think we should reject this. This is a valid use case, and as long as we do not provide a base mechanism to do this, this approach will have to do.

[aszostak-partner-eso-org]

Updated version to also apply sanity checks in pre-built binary port.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Committed in r144726 with the following changes:

• use use_configure no instead of configure {} to silence a lint warning
• add extract {} to silence a warning during installation
• use the notes feature rather than printing a message in post-activate.
• add a warning indicating what trust implications installing this port has towards ESO.