On Jan 14, 2020, at 14:43, Raphael Cohn wrote:
> What I'd like to do is run my own local archive in my own machine without
> running a webserver.
>
> I'd like to compile my ports from source and install them. I'd like to
> uninstall them. The next time I install I'd like to use the previously built
> results.
Sounds like you need to copy the archives from var/macports/software to a
different location so that when you uninstall the ports you'll still have the
archives of the things you uninstalled.
> The archives created in var/macports/software are perfect for overlaying so I
> fail to understand how to make this work.
What does overlaying mean?
