Hey all. I wish to download once, install many times. I'm reading through the conf files, man pages, mailing list archives, etc. And I'm finding myself confused. In the macports.conf file, there are options: sources_conf portarchivemode portautoclean rsync_server And in sources.conf, it specifies: rsync://rsync.macports.org ... blah So the easiest way to figure this out would be ... if somebody simply tells me how to download once, install many times. That might make me understand what's going on here. But unless that happens, let me at least ask some specific questions that might help me understand. Why is the rsync server specified twice? Once in the sources.conf file, and once in macports.conf? I assume that if I change portarchivemode to "yes" and change portautoclean to "no" then the package files will be downloaded and not deleted from my hard drive, right? And if the package files are not deleted from my hard drive, and I wish to repeat the installation on another computer (identically configured), I only need to copy /opt/local/var/macports/packages to the new system, change the rsync sources to file:///opt/.../packages instead of rsync://blah, and repeat the "port install" command, right? If my assumptions are right so far, which conf file(s) do I need to update with the file:// url instead of the rsync:// url? Thanks everyone for your help...