On May 8, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On May 7, 2007, at 17:39, Rick Gigger wrote:
Is it possible to have an internal macports mirror that also
contains binaries, so I can compile all the ports I need once and
install them on several boxes instead of re-compiling everything
on every single box?
That functionality does not exist.
One small thing you could do: after you install all the ports you
want on one system, you can copy the /opt/local/var/db/dports/
distfiles directory from that machine to another machine where you
want to install ports. That way the second machine will not need to
download the distribution files again. However, it will still need
to compile and install the software itself.
You could attempt to copy other parts of /opt/local to the other
machine as well. I don't know how well that would work. Certainly,
the machines would have be set up virtually identically in other
respects -- same processor architecture to be sure, same exact OS
version, same OS updates installed, same X11.
It is an eventual goal of MacPorts to provide binaries of the
ports, rather than make everyone compile them themselves. However,
I estimate we're still a long way away from anything resembling
that kind of functionality.
I believe this functionality exists, on the contrary. It's called
archive. You enable it in ports.conf:
portarchivemode yes
Then all compiled ports are stored in /opt/local/var/db/dports/
packages/darwin/{powerpc,intel}/
There is a limitation, though. The archives are matched against the
architecture (powerpc/intel), but not against the version of the
system. If you build powerpc archives on a 10.3.9, you should not
copy them over to a 10.4.9 box.
However, this functionality is broken in 1.4.3. This bug was fixed
three weeks ago, but the people in charge here think we should not
make too often releases, so you'll have to use trunk or wait for the
fix.
Paul
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