[m]pkg phase

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:23, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> You're suggesting this as a solution for the problem that packages produced by MacPorts interfere with MacPorts?
> 
> Essentially.

Well it's more complicated than that. The packages produced by MacPorts only install into their ${prefix}. They don't install into ${prefix}/var/macports/software/${name}/${version}_${revision}+${variants} and then hardlink into ${prefix} like MacPorts does when it installs things. The "images and archives" branch that was just merged into trunk probably changes this again.

Anyway, this is encompassed in the GSoC 2011 binaries project:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#binaries

(last sentence of second paragraph)