On May 7, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Such a format does exist: It's called a .pkg file and you interact with them every time you install an Apple software update. However, I don't think there's any functionality in MacPorts to create or use package files.
Oh really?
root@sam-> port pkg zsh-devel
---> Fetching zsh-devel
---> Verifying checksum(s) for zsh-devel
---> Extracting zsh-devel
---> Configuring zsh-devel
---> Building zsh-devel with target all
---> Staging zsh-devel into destroot
---> Creating pkg for zsh-devel-4.3.4
root@sam-> ls -l ~/Src/macports/dports/shells/zsh-devel/work/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 222 May 8 00:37 .darwinports.zsh-devel.state
drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 May 8 00:36 destroot
drwxr-xr-x 42 root admin 1428 May 8 00:35 zsh-4.3.4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 May 8 00:36 zsh-devel-4.3.4.pkg
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can also do use the "mpkg" target for ports with dependencies; this will cause a metapackage to be built which contains all the deps, making the package stand-alone.
This functionality has been in macports for a long time. :)
- Jordan