Publicizing MacPorts [installation]

Bjarne D Mathiesen macintosh at mathiesen.info
Sat May 22 21:13:40 UTC 2021


Joshua Root wrote:
> I think the best thing we could do to facilitate one-liner command line
> installation is set up a redirect so you can download the latest binary
> installer for your OS version without having to construct its
> not-so-easy-to-derive name yourself. It would then be simple to download
> the .pkg and feed it to installer(8).

so ... do we want to have a HomeBrew like instaler option ?

And if so : what type ? My solution installs directly from source & thus
by-passes the problem of finding the correct .pkg.

My complete script furthermore establishes a basis for maintainance (it
needs more --help options, but that can be fixed)

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Bjarne D Mathiesen
Korsør ; Danmark ; Europa
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OpenCore + macOS 10.15.7 Catalina
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