On May 8, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On May 7, 2007, at 17:39, Rick Gigger wrote:
Is it possible to have an internal macports mirror that also contains binaries, so I can compile all the ports I need once and install them on several boxes instead of re-compiling everything on every single box?
That functionality does not exist.
One small thing you could do: after you install all the ports you want on one system, you can copy the /opt/local/var/db/dports/ distfiles directory from that machine to another machine where you want to install ports. That way the second machine will not need to download the distribution files again. However, it will still need to compile and install the software itself.
You could attempt to copy other parts of /opt/local to the other machine as well. I don't know how well that would work. Certainly, the machines would have be set up virtually identically in other respects -- same processor architecture to be sure, same exact OS version, same OS updates installed, same X11.
It is an eventual goal of MacPorts to provide binaries of the ports, rather than make everyone compile them themselves. However, I estimate we're still a long way away from anything resembling that kind of functionality.
I believe this functionality exists, on the contrary. It's called archive. You enable it in ports.conf: portarchivemode yes Then all compiled ports are stored in /opt/local/var/db/dports/ packages/darwin/{powerpc,intel}/ There is a limitation, though. The archives are matched against the architecture (powerpc/intel), but not against the version of the system. If you build powerpc archives on a 10.3.9, you should not copy them over to a 10.4.9 box. However, this functionality is broken in 1.4.3. This bug was fixed three weeks ago, but the people in charge here think we should not make too often releases, so you'll have to use trunk or wait for the fix. Paul