Greetings All, Just for my own curiosity, I'm attempting to build the Grass GIS software as a macports package. Been putzing along, installing all the needed dependencies. I've created a local repository, for updated versions of geos, gdal, ...etc. Before attempting to build grass itself, I've run into a couple of minor problems. Several of the gdal modules have restricted access. So, I just can't set up a master_sites directive in the modified portfile. It appears that I'll have to download the .gz file and store them locally on my machine. The obvious directory would be "/opt/local/src", but the question then becomes. can the master_sites directive take a "files:///opt/local/src" as an argument? The PortStyle man page has entries for fetch, advanced fetch, cvs & subversion techniques, but nothing, that I noticed for local files. Am I missing something? There are entries for fetch.user and fetch.password for http & ftp access and I haven't explored them yet, since I'm more interested in building the software first. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff