Changed macports.conf to explicitly set buildfromsource to ifneeded and portarchivetype to tbz2 (also set portarchivemode to yes and set the portarchivepath; none of these settings were present in the macports.conf), did a port selfupdate followed by port upgrade outdated.
Verdict: Success! Binaries are installing now, no building from source. Thanks for your help! The only other thing I'd like is "apt-cache policy <package>" functionality, particularly for multiple packages (e.g. the outdated pseudopackage) but that doesn't seem to be easily available. --Greg On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:18:10PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Gregory Seidman < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > If I don't specify -b, I always seem to build from source. What should I be > > looking for in the macports.conf? > > > > As from "man macports.conf": > > buildfromsource > Controls whether ports are built from source or downloaded as pre- > built archives. Setting to 'always' will never use archives, > 'never' > will always try to use an archive and fail if one is not available. > 'ifneeded' will try to fetch an archive and fall back to building > from source if that isn't possible. > Default: ifneeded > > portarchivetype > Format of archives in which to store port images. This controls > both > the type of archive created locally after building from source, and > the type to request from remote servers. Changing this will not > affect the usability of already installed archives; they can be of > any supported type. > Supported types are: tgz, tar, tbz, tbz2, tlz, txz, xar, zip, cpgz, > cpio > Default: tbz2 > > Changing portarchivetype from tbz2 means that the prebuilt archives won't > be found (as they are all in tbz2 format only). > > Also, is there any way to do something similar to port list outdated that > > will tell me whether a binary of a newer version is available? > > > > Not so far as I am aware. It could probably be written, though, since the > archives all have (obviously) well defined names. > > -- > brandon s allbery [email protected] > wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
