macports fetch suggestion

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:04:13PM +1000, Daniel Price said:
> Dear Macports developers,
> 
> 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.

That's basically ticket #2421:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/2421>

Some ways to do that are mentioned (especially Ryan's at the end for
MacPorts 1.9+).

Bryan

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> Regards,
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> Daniel