Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-08 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, Unfortunately there's no easy way to say fetch the archives for the ports that have them, and the distfiles for those that don't. You can use $ sudo port -bp archivefetch $portlist to get all the binary archives available and ignore those that aren't. This is one of the few places where

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-08 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-4-8 22:37 , Clemens Lang wrote: Hi, Unfortunately there's no easy way to say fetch the archives for the ports that have them, and the distfiles for those that don't. You can use $ sudo port -bp archivefetch $portlist to get all the binary archives available and ignore those that

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-08 Thread Clemens Lang
Hey, The giving up isn't usually a problem because it only does that if the archive is not available on packages.macports.org. That might be the case for you, since you're close to packages.macports.org, but it isn't necessarily true for people in Europe like me. sudo port archivefetch

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-08 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-4-8 22:58 , Clemens Lang wrote: Hey, The giving up isn't usually a problem because it only does that if the archive is not available on packages.macports.org. That might be the case for you, since you're close to packages.macports.org, but it isn't necessarily true for people in

binary install details ...

2014-04-07 Thread Peter Danecek
Hi all, I have some questions regarding binary installs. 1. I would like to know if there is some way to understand if a port was installed from sources or from binaries. I'd assume this might be a information which would have to go into the DB on activation, but is not recorded (yet) ???

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-07 Thread Arno Hautala
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Peter Danecek peter.dane...@bo.ingv.it wrote: 2. Is there a way to fetch available binary packages, without installing the right away? There is the possibility do fetch all sources relevant for some port. Sometimes I would like to do something very similar

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-07 Thread Arno Hautala
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Peter Danecek peter.dane...@bo.ingv.it wrote: Thanks for this hint. This is not yet documented in the man page, right? Or I just missed it? ~petr Yeah, I don't think it's documented anywhere. Maybe the man page? I found out about it myself by asking on one of

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-4-8 02:03 , Peter Danecek wrote: Hi all, I have some questions regarding binary installs. 1. I would like to know if there is some way to understand if a port was installed from sources or from binaries. I'd assume this might be a information which would have to go into the

Re: binary install details ...

2014-04-07 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-4-8 02:26 , Arno Hautala wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Peter Danecek peter.dane...@bo.ingv.it wrote: 2. Is there a way to fetch available binary packages, without installing the right away? There is the possibility do fetch all sources relevant for some port. Sometimes I