Setup MacPorts on GitHub Runners

This GitHub Action configure and installs MacPorts. It supports the selection and deselection of port variants, the use of supplementary port definitions sources, the installation of additional ports and the caching of an installation.

Usage

Create a workflow file in the.github/workflows directory of your working copy. This workflow file should use a MacOS runner such as macos-latest and use the branch v1 of this action.

Outcomes

Once the action has been executed, the port command from MacPorts is available and can be used to install ports, create packages, and any other task it supports. The ports installation is owned by the runner, thus no root access is required to install ports.

An example workflow and an example parameter file are available below. See the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file to get started with GitHub workflows.

Inputs

• parameters — Pathname to a configuration file for the SETUP-MACPORTS action. When no pathname is provided, the configuration is expected to be found under .github/parameters/setup-macports.yaml. It is however no error when this file is not present.

Parameter file

The configuration file is in YAML and has the following format:

• version: '2.9.3' — The MacPorts version to install.
• prefix: '/opt/local' — The installation prefix to install MacPorts to. The default is /opt/local and only needs to be changed when preparing self-install packages for instane.
• variants.select: [] — The list of selected variants in the global variants configuration. See Also variants.conf(5).
• variants.deselect: [] — The list of deselected variants in the global variants configuration. See Also: variants.conf(5).
• sources: ['rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar'] — The list of source locations for port definitions. The first entry of the list is marked with default. See Also: sources.conf(5)
• ports: [] — The list of additional ports to install. Each term of the list is a dictionart with the mandatory 'name' holding the name of the port to install, optional key 'select' for the list of selected variants for this port, and the optional 'key' deselect for the list of deselected variants for this port.

Outputs

• prefix — The installation prefix to install MacPorts to.
• version — The MacPorts version to install.

Cache scopes

The cache is scoped to a key deduced from the MacOS version and the parameter file.

Example worflow

name: 'Run Testsuite'
on:
  - workflow_dispatch
  - push

jobs:
  install-macports-on-macos-11:
    runs-on: macos-11
    name: 'Install MacPorts 2.9.3 on MacOS 11'
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: melusina-org/setup-macports@v1
        id: 'macports'
        with:
          parameters: 'testsuite/run-testsuite-on-macos-11.yaml'
      - name: 'Validate installed MacPorts version'
        run: >-
          test "$(port version)" = 'Version: 2.9.3'
      - name: 'Validate transmitted MacPorts prefix'
        run: >-
          test "${{ steps.macports.outputs.prefix }}" = '/opt/local'
      - name: 'Validate transmitted MacPorts version'
        run: >-
          test "${{ steps.macports.outputs.version }}" = '2.9.3'

  install-macports-on-macos-12:
    runs-on: macos-12
    name: 'Install MacPorts 2.9.3 on MacOS 12'
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: 'Run testsuite'
        run: development/testsuite
      - uses: melusina-org/setup-macports@v1
        with:
          parameters: 'testsuite/run-testsuite-on-macos-12.yaml'
      - run: port version

Example parameters

version: '2.9.3'
prefix: '/opt/local'
variants:
  select:
    - aqua
    - metal
  deselect: x11
ports:
  - name: db48
    deselect: [ java ]
    select: [ tcl, universal ]
  - name: gmp
    select: native

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License