When I uninstall the ports the archives are still present in var/macports/software.
An overlay is an archive that can be extracted over an existing filesystem. Regardless, how do I go about creating a local file repo of binary ports? On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, 21:02 Ryan Schmidt, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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? > >
