Hello Daniel, On 2011-09-12 07:04, Daniel Price wrote: > Here is a simple suggestion for improving the macports build process. Since > the build process for each port is neatly divided into "fetch", "configure", > "build" etc, would it be possible to perform the "fetch" step for *all* > dependencies first? This is to avoid the need to be continuously connected to > the internet during what can be a very long build process, such that the > build can complete "offline" in it's own time.
It is already possible to execute the fetch phase only. You can manually do that in two steps: sudo port fetch portA rdepof:portA portB rdepof:portB sudo port install portA portB Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev