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The couchdb-devel Portfile 58177 2009-09-23 18:12:27Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: couchdb-devel
svn.revision 817403
Version: 0.10.0r${svn.revision}

Category: databases
Platform: darwin

Description: CouchDB is a document database server
Maintainers: jwa febeling
Long Description: ${description} with a restful HTTP API, capable of storing arbitrary JSON documents, building powerful data views, defined in JavaScript, and processed in parallel using Map/Reduce. It leaves out SQL and transactions for simplicity's sake, to improve scalability and to relax users' lives.

Homepage: http://couchdb.apache.org/
Master Sites: ${homepage}

distname couchdb-${version}
fetch.type svn
svn.url http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk
worksrcdir trunk

depends_lib port:automake port:autoconf port:libtool port:help2man port:icu port:spidermonkey port:erlang

pre-configure {
system "cd ${worksrcpath}; ./bootstrap"
}

set dbgroup couchdb
set dbuser couchdb
set logdir ${prefix}/var/log/couchdb
set dbdir ${prefix}/var/lib/couchdb
set plistdir /Library/LaunchDaemons

post-destroot {
addgroup ${dbgroup}
adduser ${dbuser} gid=[existsgroup ${dbgroup}]
xinstall -m 755 -o ${dbuser} -g ${dbgroup} -d ${destroot}${dbdir} ${destroot}${logdir} ${destroot}${plistdir}
destroot.keepdirs-append ${destroot}${dbdir} ${destroot}${logdir}
set plist org.apache.couchdb.plist
system "cd ${destroot}/Library/LaunchDaemons && ln -sf ${prefix}/Library/LaunchDaemons/${plist}"
}

post-activate {
ui_msg "########################################################################"
ui_msg "# Changes in CouchDB r753448 make older database files incompatible."
ui_msg "# See http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/BreakingChanges for details"
ui_msg "#"
ui_msg "# Run the following command to install the CouchDB launchd"
ui_msg "# startup item in order to start and re-start service automatically:"
ui_msg "#"
ui_msg "# sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist"
ui_msg "########################################################################"
}

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/couchdb/trunk/src/couchdb/
livecheck.version ${svn.revision}
livecheck.regex (\[0-9\]+)

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/couchdb-devel
%  sudo port install couchdb-devel  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching couchdb-devel
--->  Verifying checksum for couchdb-devel
--->  Extracting couchdb-devel
--->  Configuring couchdb-devel
--->  Building couchdb-devel with target all

--->  Staging couchdb-devel into destroot

--->  Installing couchdb-devel

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using couchdb-devel with these commands:

%  man couchdb-devel
%  apropos couchdb-devel
%  which couchdb-devel
%  locate couchdb-devel

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