On Jan 11, 2011, at 17:18, Mark E. Perkins wrote: > On 2011/01/09 22:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jan 9, 2011, at 15:46, Mark E. Perkins wrote: >> >>> I maintain my own mirror of the CPAN. That way I have ready access to >>> whatever uninstalled Perl modules I might need when I am off-net. I don't >>> see a knob in MacPorts that allows me to point at my archive when I want to >>> install p5-foo. >>> >>> I can always use the cpan command for those, but I'd rather let MacPorts >>> keep track of everything for me. >>> >>> Did I just miss something? Or is this not possible? >> >> Either set the environment variable MASTER_SITE_LOCAL to the URL of your >> local mirror, or edit it into the master_sites.tcl file. I use the latter >> method, partly because I didn't know about the former until a week ago, and >> partly because the former assumes all distfiles are in a single directory; >> if they're not, you'll need to use the latter method. If you use the latter >> method, you'll want to be using a Subversion working copy for your ports >> tree instead of rsync, otherwise your changes will be wiped out next time >> you sync. The wiki has instructions for switching your ports tree to a >> Subversion working copy. > > So if I > > export MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=file:///path.to.my.cpan > > MacPorts will assume that *all* distfiles are in that directory?
Yes. Hm, I'm not certain if "file:///..." works. I suppose it might. In my case, I use an "http://localhost/..."; URL and have my web server set up. > But my > CPAN mirror is just that, a mirror of the CPAN tree, so 'path.to.my.cpan' > doesn't even contain any useful files for p5-<whatever> ... Yes, so MASTER_SITE_LOCAL isn't going to be very useful here. I'm not sure what it's useful for at all, to be honest; see other thread: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-January/013519.html > As for the subversion alternative, do you mean mirror_sites.tcl? I don't > have a master_sites.tcl, but mirror_sites looks like the right kind of > content to me.... Yes, I meant mirror_sites.tcl; typo. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
