I had the same problem. And just asking for the deps manually is not going to do it, because they are likely to have deps themselves. So I wrote a perl script, mpfetch.pl, to do a recursive fetch. I'm pasting it below. I think there should be a 'recursive' option for the fetch command in port. In fact, I think fetching should be recursive by default. And not just because sometimes folks have bad connections or are on the road. It will prevent long builds happening before you port finds out some dep of a dep is missing. Bas ========== #! /usr/bin/perl # mpfetch --- fetch Macports ports and al dependencies, recursively. use warnings; use strict; my (%fetched); foreach(@ARGV) { fetch(0,$_); } print "\nDone\n\n"; sub fetch { my $level = shift; my $indent = "\n" . (" " x $level); foreach(@_) { my $port = $_; print $indent, "<- Fetching $port..."; my $result = system("port fetch $port"); unless ($result) { $fetched{$port}++; # remember what whas fetched, to speed things up print "done."; } else { print $indent,"!! Couldn't fetch $port!"; } my @deps = qx/port deps $port/; shift(@deps); #remove introductory line if (@deps) { print $indent, "-> $port has the following dependencies:"; foreach (@deps) { s#^\s|\s$##g; print $indent, ($fetched{$_} ? "+ " : "- "), $_; } foreach (@deps) { next if $fetched{$_}; fetch($level+1,$_); } } } } ========== Op 9-apr-2007, om 23:51 heeft Altoine Barker het volgende geschreven:

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My solution is to run these following commands for the following effect:

port info exampleport

looks at the dependencies and then run

port fetch exampleport deps1 deps2 deps3

And there you go. HTH

- -Altoine

Don Bright wrote:

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Dear Macports,

I was wondering, is there a simple way with 'port' to download a package and all its dependencies, and then compile everything later? I have intermittent network access and this would help me a lot. Thank you.

-DB

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