It is still not true that installing on other systems requires using the source code, but of course that's an option just like on Mac OS X.
It does require MP packages to be built, though.
I thought it did. So how do you install MP on other systems without installing from source? Mark
On Fri, December 14, 2007 3:57 am, markd@macports.org wrote:
So how do you install MP on other systems without installing from source?
You can't :) For there to be a binary installer, we'd have to build one, just as we have to build the Mac OS X binary installers we currently release. There's no technical reason why one couldn't build a binary installer, but obviously someone would have to support it. Kind regards, Maun Suang -- Boey Maun Suang Email: boeyms@macports.org
Boey Maun Suang wrote:
On Fri, December 14, 2007 3:57 am, markd@macports.org wrote:
So how do you install MP on other systems without installing from source?
You can't :) For there to be a binary installer, we'd have to build one, just as we have to build the Mac OS X binary installers we currently release. There's no technical reason why one couldn't build a binary installer, but obviously someone would have to support it.
I have built installers for two other systems: FreeBSD and Fedora. (1 BSD, 1 GNU - specifically: FreeBSD CURRENT and Fedora Rawhide) So far they are just in my user directory, for "RC" and for "GA": http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/users/afb/GA/ To install them from the binary packages, you use something like: rpm -ivh macports-1.6.0-0.fc9.i386.rpm pkg_add macports-1.6.0-freebsd-7.0-i386.tbz (or possibly by using something else like "yum" or "portupgrade") There are quite a few dependencies involved in the process, the biggest of which being the "Foundation" requirement... The build scripts to build the packages are located within the portmgr/ section of "base", in "freebsd" and "fedora". --anders PS. Some of the fedora packages were built from sources, but the SRPMS should be in the user directory above too.
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