macports fetch suggestion

[Rainer Müller]

Hello Daniel,

On 2011-09-12 07:04, Daniel Price wrote:
> Here is a simple suggestion for improving the macports build process. Since
> the build process for each port is neatly divided into "fetch", "configure",
> "build" etc, would it be possible to perform the "fetch" step for *all*
> dependencies first? This is to avoid the need to be continuously connected to
> the internet during what can be a very long build process, such that the
> build can complete "offline" in it's own time.

It is already possible to execute the fetch phase only. You can manually do that
in two steps:

  sudo port fetch portA rdepof:portA portB rdepof:portB
  sudo port install portA portB

Rainer