Maybe I just assumed it would do this automatically ... I will check with the -b here shortly.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 16:24, Jeff Singleton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So why isn't MacPorts just extracting archived ports from my packages >> folder? > > That's strange. I frequently transfer archives from one system to > another and install from those by passing the same variants. > Something else must be going on with your install. > >> Am I mis-understanding the port archive feature or am I missing some >> command-line switch to force MP to install from archived port packages >> instead of re-compiling from scratch? > > You can pass "-b" to force MacPorts to install only from binary archives. > > > -- > arno s hautala /-| [email protected] > > pgp eabb6fe6 d47c500f b2458f5d a7cc7abb f81c4e00 > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
