Opened 7 months ago

Last modified 7 months ago

#69916 new enhancement

PatchLocal wiki page / Step 6 should mention using `port destroot` to only build modified ports from source

Reported by: tobbi (Tobias Markus) Owned by:
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Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

wiki:howto/PatchLocal#Step6:Makeitreal

I asked on the macports IRC channel on Libera.Chat because I didn't want to build all the dependencies from source, yet the -s flag in the install command leads to exactly that:

Here's what user "jmr" wrote: "<jmr> an alternative is to run 'port destroot' instead of 'port install', that will build the specified port from source but install its dependencies normally"

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comment:1 Changed 7 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

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Type: request → enhancement

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