pkg and mpkg

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Feb 7 12:37:30 PST 2010


On 2010-2-8 07:18 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> Can port download and install pkg and mpkg packages?
> 
> There might be a port I want to create and while the product runs on
> Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard the latest version can only compile on
> Snow Leopard.
> 
> There are however pkg and mpkg downloads.

Portfiles are Turing complete, so yes, you can in principle install
however you like. It seems strange that the software would be able to
build against the 10.4 SDK but not actually on < 10.6 though.

- Josh


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