On Oct 17, 2014, at 4:50 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday October 17 2014 17:15:56 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> When installing from source, port creates a tarball from ${destroot} and
>>> then installs from that rather than downloading the equivalent tarball from
>>> a mirror, no?
>>
>> Yes, when installing from source, no binary is downloaded from
>> packages.macports.org; it's built from source locally on your machine
>> instead.
>
> Not exactly what I meant. What I meant is, does building from source create a
> binary package as an intermediate step, such that the actual install (and
> de/activation procedure) can be done regardless where the package came from?
Yes.
ls /opt/local/var/macports/software
Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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