Max Asato wrote:
This thread got a bit fragmented so I'll restate this particular
problem.
Sorry about the length of this posting.
I had created a binary archive on one system and copied the archive
to another system in the hopes that I could install the binaries
directly and avoid a second build. This would demonstrate the
feasibility of accelerating Port installations for users on our
network
by providing a shared repository for prebuilt archives.
It turns out that I either just happened to pick an odd package for my
initial testing or there are architectural differences between a
PowerMac (2x dual-core Xeon) and an iMac (Core 2 Duo) that the
glib2 port
cares about.
Seems that you got unlucky, yes.
I built glib2 originally on a PowerMac running 10.4.11.
...
abk239$ ls -l /opt/local/var/macports/packages/darwin/i386/glib2*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 3629276 Dec 8 13:18 /opt/local/var/
macports/packages/darwin/i386/glib2-2.18.3_0+darwin_8.i386.tgz
I then tried to install that binary on an iMac running 10.4.11 (which
doesn't seem to support the darwin_8 variant). This failed even
when that
variant was requested.
...
DEBUG: No TGZ archive: /opt/local/var/macports/packages/darwin/
i386/glib2-2.18.3_0.i386.tgz
Error: Target org.macports.unarchive returned: Archive for glib2
2.18.3_0 not found, required when binary-only is set!
So it looks like MacPorts is searching for an archive and would
have used
it if the port and variant had matched. So the jury is still out on
whether it is worth the effort of creating a mechanism for sharing
prebuilt binaries among our users.
This sounds like a bug to me. Presumably the default variants
should have matched, between "archive" and "unarchive"...
+darwin_8 isn't even a real variant but a platform variant,
and it should match between 10.4.11 and 10.4.11 you'd think ?
Can't seem to reproduce it, though. Trying the same gets me a:
DEBUG: No TGZ archive: /opt/local/var/macports/packages/darwin/i386/
glib2-2.18.3_0+darwin_8.i386.tgz
So it must be something else that causes +darwin_8 to disappear
on your iMac installation. It is supposed to predefined for you.
--anders
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