On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:04:13PM +1000, Daniel Price said: > Dear Macports developers, > > Here is a simple suggestion for improving the macports build process. Since > the build process for each port is neatly divided into "fetch", "configure", > "build" etc, would it be possible to perform the "fetch" step for *all* > dependencies first? This is to avoid the need to be continuously connected to > the internet during what can be a very long build process, such that the > build can complete "offline" in it's own time.
That's basically ticket #2421: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/2421> Some ways to do that are mentioned (especially Ryan's at the end for MacPorts 1.9+). Bryan [...] > > Regards, > > Daniel _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
