Simon Wheatley wrote:
Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded "package" of some kind and say "install that"? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'?
Not at the moment... You can build a package (pkg/rpm/deb), but then it doesn't integrate with the already installed ports and registry and so goes "outside" or parallel to what port knows about. Or you can build an archive (tgz/tbz/tlz), but then you have to download and move it to the right directory yourself and make sure port "base" is already installed etc.
Preferably you would use something like 'apt-get install', and that would download and install the binary package ? 'port -b' is supposed to do that, but only works with local packages yet. There is a ticket to implement remote archives, but it's rather stale... http:// trac.macports.org/ticket/8571 and also http://trac.macports.org/ ticket/10919
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