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
>
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