Jay Levitt wrote: > I have a developer who lives in a rural area, with no broadband > access. > (OK, stop laughing.) Worse, his 28.8K dialup ISP has an 8-hour max > session time, so anything signifcantly large just can't be downloaded, > period. > > I want to send him a DVD-ROM of some large packages. Ideally, I'd > want > them to look like just another source to MacPorts, so that the builds, > updates, etc. all happen within MacPorts. (Kinda like Fedora install > CDs.) And I want them to include all dependencies.
Are you sure you want to send him sources then, and not binaries ? (in Fedora et al the install CDs usually contain the binary RPMS, while the sources are in the "SRPMS", or Source RPMS, packages...) I guess if you have a full DVD anyway, you'd want to include both. But ports sources are rather small even on a dial-up, say like: 5.0M, so chances are that it is the "distfiles" that you want to send him ? > I've been able to create .mpkgs, but those re binary packages. The > guide mentions portpkgs, but doesn't say how to create them. Neither > does the man page. > > Is there any documentation on creating source packages? Unfortunately you can only create the source package portpkg.xar as a part of the "port submit" command, which also sends them in... Theoretically there could be "port portpkg" command (or something), as it is a separate function in base already. Like the "port srpm" ? --anders _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
