> Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:21:22 +0200 > From: Rainer M?ller <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: macports fetch suggestion > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello Daniel, > > On 2011-09-12 07:04, Daniel Price wrote: >> 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. > > It is already possible to execute the fetch phase only. You can manually do > that > in two steps: > > sudo port fetch portA rdepof:portA portB rdepof:portB > sudo port install portA portB > > Rainer > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:21:10 -0600 > From: Bryan Blackburn <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: macports fetch suggestion > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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 >
Hi Bryan, Rainer, Thanks for the tip -- the "port fetch rdepof" is just what I was looking for. Is there any particular reason the prefetching cannot be the default though? Daniel _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
